Louis PASTEUR (1822-1895). - Lot 49

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Louis PASTEUR (1822-1895). - Lot 49
Louis PASTEUR (1822-1895). Autograph letter signed to biologist Louis Thuillier (1856-1883), a close collaborator of Pasteur's with whom he worked on rabies, discoverer of the microbe responsible for porcine rouget disease, who died of cholera at age 27. 2 pp. in-8, letterhead of the Laboratoire de chimie physiologique de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études "Directeur M. Pasteur". Paris, April 23 [1882?] Exceptional letter on Pasteur and Thuillier's joint experiments in vaccinating sheep against anthrax (Thuillier discovered the bacillus on March 15, 1882). "The 10 sheep that had only received the vaccine on April 9 that you inoculated on the 19th, and which on the 19th received very virulent blood loaded with bacteria, are behaving well. They had bacteria, no doubt because they received the (?) very virulent on the thigh opposite that of the inoculation on the 7th, a thigh not yet inoculated [...]. But none of them have died yet, and we're on day 4 and their temperature hasn't risen appreciably. Since your animals received a 1st vaccine before this 2nd one, we can therefore hope that all will go well [...] when the virulent one is inoculated with charcoal blood. Finally, we inoculated 3 of these 10 [...]. This is too much. Give only one division at most of the syringes [...]. That way you may have fewer bacteria". He will give him further news of the 10 sheep on the 26th or 27th.
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