Louis Pasteur
One of the greatest French chemist and microbiologist was Louis Pasteur (Cunninghan 98). He was able to help shape American through his ingenuity. He came up with certain vaccinations and was able to figure more out about disease such a chicken cholera, rabies, and anthrax. The one he is most known for is the process he came up with called pasteurization.
Louis Pasteur got his bachelor degree in art in 1840. Two years later he got his degree in science and then in 1847 he got his doctorate degree (Rogers 184). Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France in 1822. At the age of 32 he became the dean of the faculty of science at the University of Lille (Trueman 1).
Louis Pasteur was at the university when a man named Bigos came to
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Louis with a problem. Bigo’s problem was that his vats of beer were souring and he asked Pasteur if he could figure out what the problem was for him (Trueman 1). As he began studying he started to wonder about how the vats were open to the air and how they could be easily exposed to things in the air. After looking at samples of the vats under a microscope he soon realized that each vat contained thousands of tiny micro-organisms. Louis Pasteur came to the conclusion that there must be invisible microbes in the air that would get into the vats of beer and make them go sour. As a result of this he started to look into other liquids as well that would go sour or bad after a little bit of time. Louis knew that if he could figure this out that this would be a great discovery and it would greatly help Bigo's problem with his beer going sour. Once Louis figured out that the microbes in the air were the reason for Bigo’s vats for souring he began trying to figure out a way to kill the microbes in the vats. This is where he used some of his ingenuity which not only helped France but also helped a lot of other countries including The United States of America. He came up with the process known as pasteurization. The process would call for heating just below the boiling points and then cooling it off fairly fast (Trueman 1). This would kill any of the germs or microbes in the vats that were making the beer, wine, or milk from going bad during the fermentation period. Today we have many things from medical tools to drinks that go through the pasteurization process. Without Louis Pasteur the United States would have a major problem with trying to keep its things such as milk, beer and wine from spoiling. Louis Pasteur began looking into disease because he had lost three of his five daughters to typhoid and a brain tumor (Trueman 1).
He made it his goal to figure out a way to cure humans of a disease once they contracted it. He started with chicken cholera which would kill chickens (Berche). He had found the vaccine for the chickens by complete chance. He just so happened to stumble upon an older version of the disease. He realized that the older version was weaker than the more new version. So he used that one to create a vaccine to see if it would work. He injected two groups with the chicken cholera one was with the more recent outbreak of chicken cholera and the other was the older one. The chickens that were injected with the new chicken cholera were several affected and the ones with the older one all got better (Trueman 1). He later found out that chickens that were already exposed to that disease were immune afterwards (Rogers). Pasteur used the chicken cholera as his trial and error for figuring out how to make vaccines that would work. Louis and Robert Koch found extremely small one celled creatures living in animals and humans and linked them to specific diseases
(Murphy). Louis Pasteur moved on to an outbreak of anthrax. He used his chicken cholera as like a starting block for trying to find a cure for anthrax. Pasteur had teamed up with some people this time to try and figure out a way to weaken the disease and make it possible to inject animals with a weaker strain of the disease. Louis and his team were able to do so but were challenged by a veterinary doctor who disagreed with their findings. So the Doctor gave them 50 sheep to prove their theory. Louis and his team split the groups into 25 each and did the same thing he did with the chicken cholera. The half with the not weakened anthrax died and the other half that were showed little to no symptoms of the disease. Louis Pasteur used his ingenuity that helped a lot of people with some of the similar problems that they were facing as well. The United States would be able to more helpfully help the farmers of its country keeps its animals healthier and help stop a epidemic outbreak of something that could be potential fatal to who or what ever would get it. Rabies is another disease that Pasteur looked into. Pasteur learned that rabies would attack the nervous system in animals and humans (Rogers). It took Pasteur and his team a little longer to find the strain of the diseases inside of animals and people cause they would have to trace it back from where it started from. After a while they were able to find some of the rabies in a dried spinal cord. From there they were able to try and figure out a way to make a cure. They had to figure out how old the disease had to be so that way it wouldn’t cause any damage but was still able to stop it from killing you painfully. They started testing on animals to see how effective their vaccine would be. But not long after that had tested it on some animals a boy had gotten bite by a rabid dog. Louis knew that just because it worked on animals it may not work on humans because they were built different. The boy didn’t have any other options for anyone to try tho because even if he didn’t get the shot he was still going to die either way. Louis Pasteur took a chance with the boy he gave him an injection of the vaccine that they had made hoping that it would work and hoped that the boy would live. The vaccination did work and the boy made a full recovery and seemed to be pretty healthy. Rabies was a pretty serious and the fact that Louis Pasteur was able to find a cure not only for animals but humans as well is pretty great. With the knowledge that Louis Pasteur left us on Rabies, Diseases, vaccinations, and Pasteurization it has helped The United States as well cause we also had people who were suffering from the same things. So Louis Pasteur helped us through his ingenuity in being able to solve some fairly large problems that a lot of people had.
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