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Louis pasteur 

by ALBERT kEKD aud LOUIS LUCDET 
CRQuslaced by pREbERIE TABER EOOpER 

Louis Pasteur (i82Z'i895) famously said, "In the fields of observation chance 
favors only the prepared mind." Pasteur brought to the study of chemistry, 
microbiology, and applied immunology, a mind open, innovative, and 
insightful. Born of peasant stock in the French Jura, he worked with dogged 
determination all his life and often in the face of strenuous opposition. Through 
an unbroken succession of rigorously designed and meticulously performed 
experiments, Pasteur developed veterinary vaccines and halted grievous losses 
in the French wine, silk, and dairy industries. He provided the crucial 
experimental support for the germ theory of disease which enabled Joseph 
Lister and others to prevent infections in surgical patients and in new mothers. 
During the development of the vaccine against rabies, Pasteur and his 
colleagues often risked their own lives, but they delivered humankind from the 
terror of this agonizing and almost always fatal illness. (Pamela Nagami, M.D.) 

Read by Pamela Nagami. Total running time: 04:22:41 


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