The intention of this paper is to examine the significant and enduring impact Louis Pasteur had on public health and wonderful advances in medicines and invention of vaccines. Louis Pasteur was a truly talented person who made many various discoveries in different areas of science. He invented Pasteurization, the process of treating milk free of damage causing microorganisms (Louis Pasteur, 2014). In 1843, Louis enrolled at the Ecole Normale Supe´rieure in Paris, where he focused in the origins of life. During the time he was professor in Strasbourg, France, he started investigating fermentation, which is a chemical process that breaks down organic substance. Pasteur became drawn to the field of transmittable diseases and the discovery of a vaccine against fowl cholera that can be considered as the birth of immunology (Berche, 2012). In 1854, he became professor of chemistry and was elected as a member of the French Academy of Medicine (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002). In 1856, Pasteur was chosen as the administrator of scientific studies of the École Normale Supérieure. Pasteur wrote several books and journals (Thefamouspeople.com.2014). In 1895, Pasteur studied rabies in 1882, which is a transmittable disease spread by the bite of rabies-infected animals, and spent many hours in his laboratory in search of a vaccine to prevent rabies (HowstuffWorks.com. 2009).
Louis Pasteur Childhood
Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 to Jean-Joseph Pasteur and Jeanne-Etiennette Roqui and the family lived in Dole, Jura, Franche-Comté, France (Berche, 2012). Louis parents educated their family in values, loyalty, respect for hard work, and monetary security. His father served as a sergeant in Napoleon’s army, and opened a tannery when he r...
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One measure they had was that of the “red cross”. This is where they would paint a red cross on the doors of people who were diagnosed with the plague. I think this would have worked because it would let people know who had the plague, so that they could avoid falling ill themselves.
Edward Jenner, “the father of immunology”, was born on May 17, 1749. He was one of nine siblings and he was treated for smallpox for a very long period of his childhood. I predict that his treatment to small pox as an infant encouraged his work into creating the vaccine for smallpox itself. It is said that his work “saved more lives than the work of any other human”. He found the similarities of cowpox and smallpox, and then analyzed his experiments to conclude that previous cowpox patients had immunization to smallpox.
To conclude my paper I would like to highlight Louis’s life. He was just a poor
“Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.” The French Revolution was a painful era that molded the lives of every citizen living in France and changed their ways of life forever. Beginning in 1789 and lasting ten years until 1799, the people of France lived in a monarch society under King Louis XVI’s rule. He was a very harsh ruler and had many restrictions placed on his people. They eventually overthrow him and become a monarch society. Among his deceptive ways, the people also experienced “The Reign of Terror,” which was a period where many lives were taken by the guillotine. Other revolutionary events included rebellions, constitutions, and groups. One of the popular groups that contributed greatly to the French Revolution were the Jacobins who were led by Maximilien Robespierre.
Many pivotal events over the last century have brought our healthcare system to where it is today. Some were indirect, such as World War II (and how it led to direct events such as medical advances that shifted focus from critical care and managing contagion to preventive medicine and health insurance as an employee benefit) and the internet (which has provided a wealth of tools and resources that were once only available to healthcare providers and has served to foster technological advancements such as Electronic Health Records and telemedicine). Others were targeted interventions, such as the Hill-Burton Act, which was enacted in 1946 and provided infrastructure dollars to healthcare facilities that agreed to provide a significant volume of free or reduced cost services to those with limited ability to pay (HRSA, 2014). Perhaps the most influential targeted event was the passage of Medicare and Medicaid programs, which was the point at which the government became the administrator for insurance programs for the poor, creating a system that would continuously grow and impact service delivery through regulatory control.
Born on September 6th, 1757 to house La Fayette, an affluent family of great heritage. His late ancestor, Gilbert Motier de La Fayette, was the Marshal of France during the Hundred Year’s War, and
Geraldine Brooks’ novel, Years of Wonder, revolves around a maid in her twenties named Anna Frith during the “Great Plague” in the village of Eyam. She is a widow after her husband’s untimely mining accident and has to take care of her two sons alone. As an independent woman, Anna works as a maid in a perish house. To earn more money during desperate times, she takes in a tailor named George Viccars. Quickly a love attraction blossoms between the two, only to get halted by the import of a bolt of fabric cloth. The cloth housed the “black plague” from London and was now ready to spread in Eyam. George soon dies thereafter and pleads for Anna to incinerate all the imported,
Louis Pasteur, in 1881, discovered the anthrax vaccine. Anthrax is an infection caused by many bacteria cells called “Bacillus”. These bacteria make “spores” which have a protective shell. This disease is most common in farm animals. They live in soil, and affect domestic a...
Louis Pasteur was a famous scientist throughout the 1800s. He is known for his advancements in vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization. He is also known for his breakthroughs concerning disease prevention. He had a wide range of discoveries and advancements, these can be traced by going through the main points in his lifetime which were: his early life, professional career, research contributions of the Germ Theory, contributions to immunology and vaccination, and the honors and wards he received for all of his achievements.
As you might know, Louis was born on La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. This is located in Europe, is the 137th largest nation in the world. Like I have said before this is going to be different as what you have read. In this place people Wear Layers, Upon Layers of Layers. They have traditional food that have keep till today and you might love it, one of them is Pizza, pasta or just food that include cheese and chocolate. Not only they have good food, they also, have movies, an example is The Lonedale Operator. A car invented during that time was the classic six designed by Chevrolet Company. This car was a success for Chevrolet and Durant, but specially for the company. La Trattoria des Bains, Le Vieux Valais and Restaurant de la Tour were restaurants in the 90’s that might still exist. The money used in Europe is called francs. Francs are monetary units of various nations until the euro was adopted. One franc is equal to one dollar. Comparatively, to the prices worldwide this is much more expensive because the Price of gas per gallon was 5.69 Fr, the Price of bread was 2.34 Fr per pound and the Price of gallon of milk was 5.65 Fr. …...William Howard Taft was the president of the United States and James S. Sherman was the vice president. Switzerland’s head of state was Doris Leuthard. Equally important, political events that were
A remarkable breakthrough in medicine occurred in the late 1800s through the work of Louis Pasteur. Pasteur's experiments showed that bacteria reproduce like other living things and travel from place to place. Using the results of his findings, he developed pasteurization, which is the process of heating liquids to kill bacteria and prevent fermentation. He also produced an anthrax vaccine as well as a way to weaken the rabies virus. After studying Pasteur's work, Joseph Lister developed antisepsis, which is the process of killing disease-causing germs.
Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix was born on April 26, 1798. Delacroix was the son of Charles Delacroix and Victoire Oeben. His father served for a short period of time as a minister of foreign affairs. At the time of Delacroix’s birth his father was on a mission to Holland as ambassador of the French Republic. Delacroix’s mother was a descended of artisans and craftsmen. His parents both died early. His father died in 1805 and his mother in 1814. After his mothers death he was left in the care of his older sister, Henriette de Verninac.
As a Christian speaking to the people of Oran, it would be very difficult to say anything to a people facing such terrible affliction. Even though Father Paneloux believed what he was preaching, I believe he was completely wrong. This would make what I would say much different from what Father Paneloux said. However, some strong points did emerge from his sermons. Overall, the two sermons in Albert Camus’ The Plague fail to help people become more faithful and fail to even preach to the people of Oran the truth.
The history of vaccine started with the spread of smallpox disease. Smallpox was a contagious disease and, it was spreading fast leaving permanent scars on patients' faces or worse taking their lives. At the time, there were several attempt to treat and prevent smallpox, but Edward Jenner had the greatest rule in eliminating smallpox.“Jenner's work represented the first scientific attempt to control an infectious disease by the deliberate use of vaccination”. ( “Conclusion” 1,2). Nowadays, Statistics show significant reduction in the cases of infectious diseases after the widespread of vaccination. There were annually 63,000 cases of Pneumococcal among children in the United States. After the beginning of vaccination, the cases redu...
Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in a little town called Dôle in the foothills of the Jura Mountains of eastern France. When he was five years old his family moved to Arbois where he grew up with his father, mother, and three sisters. While attending primary school Pasteur was only an average student. Some considered him to be slow because he worked so hard on an exercise problem to make sure that he had the right answer. While in high school Monsieur Romanet, Pasteur’s principal, became interested in Pasteur and began to help him with his studies. With this encouragement Pasteur became a very good student. The principal suggested that he aim to attend Ecole Normale in Paris where he could become a professor at one of the great universities, however his father felt that this was far-fetched and preferred that Pasteur attend a more local school (Burton, 5-7).