Dr. Pasteur.

Manawatu Herald, 3 October 1895, Page 2

Dr. Pasteur.

D.\ tJoiiis t\isteiu\ the celebrated oh mist, is dead, from paralysis.

[Louis Pasteur, the most famous -f Franco's! many present-day scientists^ and one of the greatest benef ictors of the race in modern time?, was b;)ra at D6!e, Jura, on 27th December, 1822. Ac iho age of 18 he entered tin University, and took the dtgree of Doctor seven years later. In 1848 he was appointed ProL'ssor of Poysic at the Faculty of Sjiences, Strasburg, and in 1857 h 3 undertook the scientific direction of h- Ecoltt Nonnale. In 18G3 he was appointed Professor of Geolcgy, Physio.-*, and Chemistry at the E^oio des Beaux Arts, and was elected a member of the Inswte. His dt?coratiom and awards have b^en narfuroils. In 1856 the Royal Society cf London awarded him the Rumford Medal for his researches relative to

the p ilnriz uion of light. He was decorated with the Legion of Honour in 1853, and was promoted to be an Officer of thdt Order in 1803, and a Commander in 1868. One year later he was elected one of the iifty foreign members of til*- Rival Society of London. In 1861 be obtained the Lecker priz-; for numerous works relating to chemistry. Chiefly a3 a reward for his investigations on fji> mentation iv 1874 M. Pasteur wa-s accorded a life annuity of 12 000 francs from the Naaon.il Assembly. He bocanv? Grand offiv.r of th* Legion of Honour in IH7B. In 1882 ho was received into the French Academy, sucue ding to the chair of M. Little. In the same year, the Albert iMddal of the Society of Arts was awarded to M. Pasteur for his researches in connection with fermentation, the preservation of wines, and the propagation of zymotic diseases in silkworms and domestic animals. Of late years M. Pasteur has devoted himself to the study of inoculation for diseases other than small-pox, and has achieved some very remarkable results in the prevention of hydrophobia. In 1888 the Pasteur Institute, for the treatment of the last-mentioned disease, wa* opened in Paris, and the results mnounced have caused numbers of p*tient3 to flock to that institution annually from all part* of Europe. S^v-ml y^ars a<z<j M. Pasteur 9ug~ gested the pos ability of ridding Australia of its plague of rabbits by spreading disease among them by inoculation. Th» trial of theexpsrimenc, however, was not successful. In 1892 he instituted experiments as to the possibility of anti-choleraic vaccination, which proved successful in the case of animals. The investigations of M. Paste ur have directed attention to the part that bacilli play in disaasp, and he has sue c j eded io isolating the bacillna of more thin nn< j disease. In 1892 M. Pasteur's 70th birthday was enthusi astically celebrated bnfore a representative official assembly at the Sor^ bonne.]