Dr.+Louis+Pasteur

Louis Pasteur The hunt to find the cure to Rabies By: AnnaL977

** Significant parts in Mr. Pasteur’s life **

** What is a microbe? **
 * Born: in Dole December 27, 1822
 * Married: 1849 to Marie Laurent
 * Three daughters died between 1859 and 1865
 * Stroke: he had a **stroke** and it left his left side partly paralyzed
 * Rabies: treatment of Joseph Meister vaccine begins on July 6, 1885
 * Parents: Jean-Joseph and Jeanne-Etiennette Roqui
 * In 1862 founded the process of pasteurization
 * Dies: September 28, 1895
 * Died from of another stroke

A microbe is an organism that holds bacteria that can cause you to become extremely ill. Microbes are contained in the disease **rabies**. If you got this disease before the vaccine it was deadly. ** What did Louis Pasteur do? **


 * He started out helping to prevent the diseases silkworm, anthrax, chicken cholera, and rabies.
 * He worked as a **microbiologist**
 * Louis found out that microbes soured drinks and came up with the process of pasteurization
 * He started out working on cures for animal diseases such asanthrax in sheep, erysipelas in swine, and chicken cholera in **poultry**.
 * When he was done working on that, he started studying the deadly disease rabies
 * Once he thought that he found out a treatment he tried it out on a boy that got bit by a dog that had rabies. The boy was bitten 12 times by the dog and was thought to die. Louis Pasteur tried the treatment and the boy made a full recovery.
 * Problems in the start of the study. **

When he started the study on microbes, he found that they were too small to even study. He needed to find out a way to make the tiny microbes grow. He first thought that sugar and water would make the microbes grow. After that did not work he had to try many more times. Finally, after many more attempts he found out that if you mix yeast, water, and sugar into a soup like substance, the microbes would grow in size. This way, Louis Pasteur could study the microbes.

** Why was this so important? **  Pasteur’s discoveries were so important for the life of thousands of people. Rabies and bacteria in drinks used to cause sickness and death. Both are very important treatments that we still use today.

** Citations **

Birch,Beverley.Louis Pasteur father of Modern Medicine. Woodbridge: Blackbirch press, 2001. Print.

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Muestra, Galeria D. mad racoon close up. Hand Painted River Rocks by Elvira García. Web. 19 Sept. 2013.

Pasteur, Louis. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica. Web. 20 Sep. 2013.

Robbins, Louise E. Louis Pasteur: And the Hidden World of Microbes. New York, NY: Oxford Univ., 2001. Print.

** Glossary **
 * Microbiologist ** - Scientist that deal with the functions of microbes and the use of microbes.
 * Stroke ** - throbbing of the heart
 * Rabies ** - I sickness that is when an animal that had rabies bites you and can cause death if not treated.
 * Poultry ** – a valued meat
 * Micro ** – very small
 * Pasteurization ** – the process of heating and cool drinks to kill bacteria