- Louis Pasteur.
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- Louis Pasteur was one of the greatest scientists of all time.
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- Pasteur made very important discoveries in biology and chemistry,
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- and the techniques he developed helped greatly to develop
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- medical science and the agricultural and food industries.
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- Pasteur was born in a small town in France during the year eighteen twenty two.
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- When he was a young man,
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- Pasteur studied science at a university in the city of Paris.
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- He soon did some excellent work in chemistry,
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- and later began his famous study of germs.
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- Pasteur was one of the first scientists to understand
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- that many diseases
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- could be caused by extremely small, invisible organisms.
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- Only a few other scientists had believed this before Pasteur.
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- He advised doctors to wash their hands thoroughly before treating patients.
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- Pasteur also demonstrated that life forms did not arise spontaneously.
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- His research confirmed the idea,
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- developed by previous scientists,
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- that a living organism would not appear unless other individuals of its kind were present.
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- One of Pasteur's most important contributions
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- was a technique that has been named after him pasteurization.
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- Pasteurization kills the germs that are found in drinks
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- such as milk or beer.
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- Because of Pasteur's technique,
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- people are no longer infected with diseases by drinking these liquids.
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- Just as important as pasteurization was a technique called immunization
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- Pasteur found that a person or animal
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- could be made safe, or immune, from a disease,
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- by injecting the person with some weakened germs that cause the disease.
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- The body can resist the disease after being immunized in this way.
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- Today, many diseases are prevented by the use of this technique.
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- Pasteur's discoveries also helped to save people
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- who had already been infected with diseases.
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- One such disease is rabies.
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- Rabies is a disease that sometimes occurs in animals.
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- This disease usually kills the animal,
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- but before dying,
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- the animal becomes very aggressive,
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- and may spread the disease by biting a person or another animal.
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- One day, the parents of a young boy came to Pasteur.
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- Their son had been bitten by a dog that had the rabies disease.
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- The parents knew that their son would die from the disease,
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- unless something could be done to save him.
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- Pasteur agreed to help the boy,
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- and the immunization technique saved the boy's life.
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- Pasteur died in eighteen ninety five
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- He was greatly admired around the world for his achievements,
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- which have helped all of mankind.
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- Today, Pasteur is considered
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- to be the greatest figure in the history of medicine.
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