But the virus’s incubation period also made rabies of interest to Pasteur—already a famous scientist in France—as a candidate for a new type of vaccine. “The time from the bite to the sickness was ...

In the duchy of medical history, few achievements are as remarkable as the development of the rabies vaccine by French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur in 1885. This groundbreaking ...

The first rabies vaccine was developed in 1885 by Louis Pasteur. This vaccine was designed for dogs, and the first ...

Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur, who kept kennels of mad dogs in a crowded little laboratory and was hounded by medical criticism, had never tried his rabies vaccine on a human being before.

Only 55 years ago great, meticulous Louis Pasteur (1822-95 ... first used a vaccine on a human being. It was rabies vaccine, which Pasteur administered to Joseph Meister an Alsatian child chewed ...

Louis Pasteur’s trepidation at injecting a child with the first rabies vaccine might have reflected his private knowledge of its lack of prior animal testing. NIH’s plan to reduce indirect funds faced ...

Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur both contributed research ... In 1885, Pasteur and his student Emile Roux developed a vaccine to treat rabies by growing the virus in rabbits and attenuating it ...

The next great breakthrough came in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur ... In 1881, he developed a vaccine for anthrax and by 1885, a vaccine for rabies. In the late 1870s the German, Robert Koch ...

Louis Pasteur was one of the first scientists to discover the role of microorganisms in disease and how sickness could be prevented by vaccines ... 50 dogs immune to rabies before treating ...