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PASTEUR, LOUIS (1822-1895). Cabinet photograph signed ("L. Pasteur"), by A. Gerschel, Paris (imprint on mount), n.d. [circa 1886]. 162 x 107 mm. (6 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.) including mount. A three-quarter-length portrait of Pasteur, signed on the upper portion of the image.
"In the 1850's Pasteur rescued the beer and wine industries of France from bacterial contaminants with a process called pasteurization; the application of the process to milk prevented many diseases. Pasteur is also remembered for the first rabies vaccine, which ended the worldwide fear of mad dogs, but perhaps his most significant achievement was to prove that all living things, even tiny bacteria, have parents"--W.M.
"In the 1850's Pasteur rescued the beer and wine industries of France from bacterial contaminants with a process called pasteurization; the application of the process to milk prevented many diseases. Pasteur is also remembered for the first rabies vaccine, which ended the worldwide fear of mad dogs, but perhaps his most significant achievement was to prove that all living things, even tiny bacteria, have parents"--W.M.