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Title: Pasteur Inoculating Man with Rabies Vaccine, 1895
Caption: "Pasteur inoculating a man with the rabies virus," chromolithograph, circa 1895/1900. Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 - September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and bacteriologist who founded the science of microbiology. Pasteur discovered that disease could be caused by bacteria transmitted from person to person (the germ theory of disease). He also developed vaccines for rabies and anthrax. Pasteur also found that lightly heating food and beverages could preserve them from souring. This pasteurization process is now widely used in the food industry. As a chemist, Pasteur discovered that some crystals had two forms, one which would rotate plane-polarized light to the left, and the other would rotate light to the right. This led to the study of stereochemistry.
Category: ILLUSTRATION • Medical: History
Credit: Album / Science Source / Wellcome Images
Image size: 3898 × 2329 px | 26.0 MB
Print size: 33.0 × 19.7 cm | 1534.6 × 916.9 in (300 dpi)