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 ...

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.

Louis Pasteur was one of the first scientists to ... His report claimed that he had made 50 dogs immune to rabies before treating the boy, but his notebooks revealed that he had only tested ...

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

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 ...

There was a stir here to-day when it became known that the dog which bit three persons on Sunday night had been declared by the Pasteur Institute ... a pronounced case of rabies.

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

In Paris in the 1880s a great search was on in the laboratories of Louis Pasteur to find a treatment for rabies. This terrible disease, acquired from the bite of an infected animal, was a death ...

The next great breakthrough came in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister’s microscope ... for anthrax and by 1885, a vaccine for rabies. In the late 1870s the German, Robert Koch began ...

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 ...