Louis Pasteur

 Achievements of louis pasture

Louis Pasteur was born In France in 1822. He graduated in science and arts from a college in Besancon and was given a post on the teaching staff. 

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In 1848, at the age of twenty six he became Deputy Professor of chemistry in the University of Strasburg. He was married in 1950. The marriage proved extremely happy. 
His wife played an important role in his life and work. In 1860, he proved that if a substance was heated so & kill all life, and protected from the germs from outside, it would not give birth to any form of life.The French Academy was satisfied and awarded5 him the prize offered for the solution7of the problem. In the course of his experiments, he found that certain kinds of germs were very difficult to destroy by heat. The bacteria in milk could be destroyed only by heating it at 10°C above the boiling point. In 1870 he became interested in brewing . It was the year when Germany and France started a war. 
Pasteur was a great patriotic. He loved his country. As soon as the war started, he returned the degree of Doctor of Medicine bestowed upon him by the university of Bonn. He wished to join the army but was declared unfit on medical grounds. The reason for his interest In brewing was patriotic in nature. He wished to enable France to make beer as good as that brewed by Germany. 
He published his research on brewing in 1076. He discovered that fermentation13 was due to bacteria. Later, Lister proved that inflammation14, too, was a type Of fermentation and was caused by bacteria getting into the wounds. In 1865, Pasteur had done some work on the diseases of silk worms. 
Now after completing his work on brewing he turned his attenlion to diseases of animals and men. He visited hospitals, collected infectious matter from patients, examined it under microscope and identified germs of various diseases.
 His most important achievement was the discovery of making vaccines. The first disease to which Pasteur applied his vaccine was Rabies, a dreadfuldisease produced by the bite of a mad dog. His first patient, a boy, was completely cured.
 In two months Pasteur inoculated 350 men bitten by mad dogs and only one of them died. -Pasteur’s followers carried on his work. More and more germs wore identified. Medicines and vaccines were prepared to . and prevent diseases caused by these germs. Fasteur died in 1895 at the age of seventy-three. He was buried in the Pasteur Institute built by his admirers in Paris.