Louis Pasteur was a French microbiologist and chemist who pioneered a legendary scientific path of discovery. Pasteur was among the first to develop a method for creating a bacteria-based vaccine. His studies of bacteria still have an effect upon many scientific fields today. Although Pasteur has historical discoveries related to food borne bacteria, I will largely focus upon his discovery of the Anthrax vaccine.
Pasteur’s discovery of the Anthrax vaccine took place Pouilly-le-Fort, France. The local economy was heavily based around the raising of sheep, goats, oxen, and cattle. Pasteur reported in his studies that “Anthrax is responsible for the loss of many millions of animals every year in France” (Yale Universtiy, 1881). The motives for Mr. Pasteur’s discoveries was to create a vaccine that would preserve a drastic percentage of the livestock around the world. Although the methods that Pasteur used to discover the vaccination were kept confidential for many years, it was later …show more content…
Pasteur has been involved in personal experiments and discoveries for months prior to his public display of discovery. As part of his demonstration, he asked for a donation of 60 sheep, 2 goats, 1 ox, and 9 cattle, from the Agricultural Society of Melun, France, to be his test subjects. His plan involved offering the Anthrax vaccination to one half of his subjects. Two weeks later, he would inject a heavy dose of the bacteria into each subject. He promised that those who had been vaccinated would survive with little to no side effects. Yet the does would certainly be enough to take the life of every other unvaccinated host. The results were flawless, and many were converted to the methods that were presented. Louis Pasteur’s discoveries have been instrumental towards the discovery of vaccines, bacteria functions, and disease
Pasteur’s discovery of the Anthrax vaccine took place Pouilly-le-Fort, France. The local economy was heavily based around the raising of sheep, goats, oxen, and cattle. Pasteur reported in his studies that “Anthrax is responsible for the loss of many millions of animals every year in France” (Yale Universtiy, 1881). The motives for Mr. Pasteur’s discoveries was to create a vaccine that would preserve a drastic percentage of the livestock around the world. Although the methods that Pasteur used to discover the vaccination were kept confidential for many years, it was later …show more content…
Pasteur has been involved in personal experiments and discoveries for months prior to his public display of discovery. As part of his demonstration, he asked for a donation of 60 sheep, 2 goats, 1 ox, and 9 cattle, from the Agricultural Society of Melun, France, to be his test subjects. His plan involved offering the Anthrax vaccination to one half of his subjects. Two weeks later, he would inject a heavy dose of the bacteria into each subject. He promised that those who had been vaccinated would survive with little to no side effects. Yet the does would certainly be enough to take the life of every other unvaccinated host. The results were flawless, and many were converted to the methods that were presented. Louis Pasteur’s discoveries have been instrumental towards the discovery of vaccines, bacteria functions, and disease