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Louis Pasteur
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  • Washcloths, broth, now and then a page from Pasteur or Rousseau.†   (source)
  • Burnham planned to close the purification plant by Opening Day and give visitors a choice between two other supplies of safe water: lake water purified with Pasteur filters and offered free of charge, or naturally pure water for a penny a cup, piped one hundred miles from the coveted springs of Waukesha, Wisconsin.†   (source)
  • His Pasteur beard, the color of mother-of-pearl, and his hair, the same color, carefully combed back and with a neat part in the middle, were faithful expressions of his character.†   (source)
  • "Rufino," I said, "turn down Pasteur, quick?'†   (source)
  • Compared with other historical figures in medicine, such as Pasteur or Schweitzer or Florence Nightingale, Virchow isn't very well-known.†   (source)
  • Pasteur developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies.†   (source)
  • Pasteur?†   (source)
  • His 1958 paper on linear viral transformations opened broad new lines of scientific inquiry, particularly among the Pasteur Institute group in Paris, which subsequently won the Nobel Prize in 1966.†   (source)
  • While rat death had been observed to accompany plague since ancient times, it wasn't until 1898 that a scientist named P. L. Simond reported in the Annales d'Institute Pasteur (or "the annals of the Pasteur Institute") his discovery that fleas that had fed on infected rats were responsible for transmitting the disease to humans in some 90 percent of cases.†   (source)
  • Pasteur was a radical.†   (source)
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  • The young doctor walked down the gangplank dressed in perfect alpaca, wearing a vest and dustcoat, with the beard of a young Pasteur and his hair divided by a neat, pale part, and with enough self-control to hide the lump in his throat caused not by terror but by sadness.†   (source)
  • She'd always loved the story of Pasteur's discovery of microbes, or Lister's experiments with antisepsis.†   (source)
  • To think of the millions that the armies of the world had spent on "kits" like this, or to think that before Pasteur's discovery of microbes, doctors fought duels over the merits of balsam of Peru versus tar oil for wound infection.†   (source)
  • He had been forged, by that deluded old teacher, into a sort of Pasteur or Curie or patient discoverer of insulin.†   (source)
  • The Banner ran articles on man martyred by society: Socrates, Galileo, Pasteur, the thinkers, the scientists, a long, heroic line—each a man who stood alone, the man who defied men.†   (source)
  • and Father Koch and Father Pasteur and Brother Jacques Loeb and Brother Arrhenius.†   (source)
  • If it was not so large, McGurk ranked in equipment with Rockefeller, Pasteur, McCormick, Lister.†   (source)
  • One of them died, and the other had to go to the Pasteur Institute with a well-developed case of hydrophobia.†   (source)
  • Gratefully yet doubtfully: "You know if you got bored, Sandy, you could go see the work at the Pasteur Institute.†   (source)
  • D'Herelle of the Pasteur Institute has just now published in the Comptes Rendus, Academie des Sciences, a report— it is your X Principle, absolute.†   (source)
  • Back in 1881 he was confirming Pasteur's results in chicken cholera immunity and, for relief and pastime, trying to separate an enzyme from yeast.†   (source)
  • When he was so interested in the work at Pasteur Institute that he had a clerk telephone that he would not be able to meet her for dinner, she was tight-lipped with rage.†   (source)
  • And all the while Max Gottlieb was recalling the eagerness of his first students, when he had just returned from working with Koch and Pasteur, when he was fresh from enormous beer seidels and Korpsbruder and ferocious arguments.†   (source)
  • …of figures, always realizing the presence of uncontrollable variables, always a vicious assailant of what he considered slackness or lie or pomposity, never too kindly to well-intentioned stupidity, he worked in the laboratories of Koch, of Pasteur, he followed the early statements of Pearson in biometrics, he drank beer and wrote vitriolic letters, he voyaged to Italy and England and Scandinavia, and casually, between two days, he married (as he might have bought a coat or hired a…†   (source)
  • Over the Nautilus Cornfield's announcement was the vigorous headline: ALMUS PICKERBAUGH WINS First Scientist Ever Elected to Congress Side-kick of Darwin and Pasteur Gives New Punch to Steering Ship of State Pickerbaugh's resignation was to take effect at once; he was, he explained, going to Washington before his term began, to study legislative methods and start his propaganda for the creation of a national Secretaryship of Health.†   (source)
  • We'll have scores of physicians in hospitals helping us and confirming our results and widening our efforts…… We might have a weekly council of all these doctors and assistants, with you and me jointly presiding…… If men like Koch and Pasteur had only had such a system, how much more SCOPE their work might have had!†   (source)
  • To Martin, he spoke of Pasteur, George Washington, Victor Vaughan, and Edison as his masters, but in asking the business men of Nautilus—the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the association of wholesalers—for their divine approval of more funds for his department, he made it clear that they were his masters and lords of all the land, and fatly, behind cigars, they accepted their kinghood.†   (source)
  • …oysters (shells included), heals several sufferers from king's evil, contracts his face so as to resemble many historical personages, Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Byron, Wat Tyler, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, Moses Mendelssohn, Henry Irving, Rip van Winkle, Kossuth, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Baron Leopold Rothschild, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes, Pasteur, turns each foot simultaneously in different directions, bids the tide turn back, eclipses the sun by extending his little finger.†   (source)
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