On July 6, 1885, Pasteur tested his pie vaccine on a man for the first time. He saved the life of a young man called Joseph Meister who had been bitten by a rabid dog. Pasteur was urged to treat him with his new method. The treatment lasted 10 days and at the end he recovered ...
from his famous memoir of 26 October 1885 announcing the application of his rabies treatment to man,Pasteur claimed that he had “already rendered a large number of dogs refractory to rabies after they had been bitten. Peter complained that Pasteur failed...
Pasteur was still a student when he made his first discovery with an experiment in crystallography. He noted that the organic compound, when synthesised in the laboratory, was optically inactive, or unable to rotate the plane of polarised light. And yet, natural tartrate, an acid formed in gra...