He was a prominent scientist. His research are now the main base on vaccinations dar. But there are also critical voices. The Princeton historian Prof. Gerald Geison evaluated for over twenty years of Pasteur's records. He found out that he has taken the good Pasteur not always accurate with the truth.
A good example is the media-vaccination, which M. Pasteur has carried out in a nine year old boy.
Geison notes about this:
There will be more such cases in his records. If you want to deal so a little deeper with this matter, buy this book. "An even more interesting reflection on the person Pasteur emanates from a description of his experiment to prevent rabies in a young boy, Joseph Meister, who had been extensively bitten by a rabid dog. At the time, Pasteur had been reporting animal experiments using an "attenuated" rabies vaccine produced by repeated passage of infectious nervous tissue though dogs or monkeys. At the same time, Emile Roux, Pasteur's able physician colleague, had been working with a killed vaccine produced by desiccating the spinal cords of infected rabbits. It appears that Pasteur appropriated Roux's idea and used this vaccine on young Joseph Meister. Meister never developed rabies. But Pasteur concealed the process he used to make the vaccine. He allowed the scientific community to believe that the vaccine injected into Joseph Meister was an "attenuated" one; his lab notes, however, reveal that he used Roux's desiccated spinal cord process. "
should all be critically read.
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