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history meme (french edition) → 7 inventions/achievements (2/7) the first vaccine for rabies by Louis Pasteur & Émile Roux

“Pasteur had, in the early 1880s, a vaccine for rabies, but he was a chemist and not a licensed physician, and potentially liable if he injured or killed a human being. In early july 1885, Joseph Meister, a nine year-old-boy, had been badly mauled and bitten by a rabid dog (…). Pasteur injected young Meister with his rabies vaccine: the boy did not develop rabies and recovered fully from his injuries. Pasteur became a hero, and the Parisian Institue which came to be named in his honour, and of which he was the first director, became the global prototype bacteriological and immunological research institute. By demonstrating beyond doubt that many diseases were transmitted by bacteria and could be prevented from becoming active by pasteurization techniques, Pasteur indeed changed the course of history.” – G. L. Geison, The Private Science of Louis Pasteur.

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