How has Lauis Pasteur changed medical history?
Louis Pasteur was an 18th century French chemist and microbiologist whose contributions to science, technology, and medicine are unparalleled. He best known for two things: pasteurization and vaccination.
Pasteur was able to demonstrate that microorganism like bacteria are responsible for souring wine, beer, and milk. He also demonstrated these bacteria could have been removed by boiling, and then cooling the milk. This processs is known as pasteurization.
During his lifetime, Pasteur worked with diseases suchas cholera in chikens, and developed a vaccine for it. It was also Pasteur who duced and tested the first rabies vaccine.
On July 6th, 1885, a nine year-old boy named Joseph Meister was attacked by a rabid dog. THe young boy faced almost certain death, but was saved by Pasteur's vaccine. Louis Pasteur would also be responsible for creating the earliest vaccines against anthrax.