Louis Pasteur Essay Summary

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Pasteur was born in quiet humble circumstances. His father had been Napoleon's conscript and was a famous battler. Pasteur was himself a great patriot. he was refused to be enrolled as National Guard because he had a paralytic stroke and could not perform well. He had hurdles in his education due to limited family funds. He worked hard to prove his talents at school. Soon he was recognized a brilliant student and colleges offered his admissions. He graduated in Science and Art from Besancon and did a job there.

Pasteur was too much interested in Chemistry. In 1850, he married and his wife proved an important factor in his work. He, in 1860, proved that spontaneous generation was not a fact. He introduced pasteurization method for killing the germs. His patriotic sentiments can be felt as that he left when in 1870 German and France plunged into war, he got his name removed from the faculty of the University of Bonn.

Pasteur worked for French Army and wrote a book. He worked on fermentation and tried to investigate the causes of wound inflammation. He discovered that inflammation was also a type of fermentation caused by bacteria. Lister proved that this inflammation can be averted by excluding germs from the wound.

Later, on the force of French Government, He investigated in the Silkworm Disease. Earlier observers had found microscopic grains or "corpuscles" in the bodies of diseased worms but nobody could found a remedy. Pasteur suggested collecting the eggs laid by each moth separately and only keeping those derived from healthy parents. He suggested cleanliness, avoiding overload and overheat etc. It had a positive effect on the industry. This assignment led Pasteur to work on infectious diseases of higher animals like the man.

He worked on a preventive treatment of a cattle-disease named anthrax. Thus he saved millions of sheep and cows form this diseases. He went to hospitals collecting data about diseases in human and did thorough research. He proved that operating instruments can carry the germs from infected persons to healthy persons. He discovered the method of making vaccines after a series of experiments.

It will be well said that Pasteur brought the facts of disease and death from the realm of the supernatural and miraculous into the realm of the natural. He died in 1895 at the age of seventy-three.

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