PASTEUR LOUIS: (1822-1895)

PASTEUR LOUIS: (1822-1895) French Chemist & Microbiologist. An excellent content A.L.S., `L. Pasteur´, one page, 8vo, Paris, 30th October 1885, in French. In a very amusing way Pasteur responds to his correspondent´s offer and states `Miss, I am deeply touched by your offering. But I cannot accept it because you have not been bitten…´ Small overall minor age wear, otherwise G After five years of extensive study of the rabies virus and the successful treatment of several infected dogs, Louis Pasteur faced his first human patient in July of 1885, only three months before the present letter was written. Certain that the severely bitten nine-year-old Joseph Meister would not survive without treatment, he began the course of the 13 injections; after administering all 13, one each day, in progressively stronger doses, Meister regained strength and never developed rabies. After a second successful treatment on a bitten shepherd which began in October, word spread and people began to seek him out for the vaccinations.