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Barcode30293102315392
StatusChecked Out
LocationClark County
Call NoB Past
TitleLouis Pasteur : founder of microbiology (Immortals of science) / Mary June Burton.
AuthorBurton, Mary June, author.
CollectionNF Biography
Total Circ1
NumReserves0
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Clark County30293102315392B Past10/10/2025 Due on 11/19/2025Clark County

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International Standard Book Number 9798888181706 (paperback)
Personal Name Burton, Mary June, author.
Title Statement Louis Pasteur : founder of microbiology (Immortals of science) / Mary June Burton.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Cynthiana, Kentucky : Purple House Press, 2025.
Physical Description 176 pages: black and white illustrations, portraits, 23 cm.
Series Statement Immortals of science
General Note First published: New York : Watts, 1963.
Summary, Etc. Learn how Louis Pasteur discovered which germs were beneficial and which were deadly to mankind. His years of patient and exhaustive research on the germ theory of disease earned this tireless French chemist a place as one of the true Immortals of Science. Perhaps Pasteur is best known for showing how harmful bacteria could be killed by holding them at a definite temperature for a certain length of time. Later this process acquired its discoverer's name -- pasteurization. And Pasteur improved the practice of medicine in his day in a major way. It was his research that inspired the British surgeon Joseph Lister to demand that doctors keep germs out of surgeries. Post-surgery deaths from gangrene plummeted due to the work of Pasteur and Lister. Gangrene did not have to set in after surgery if doctors, instruments and bandages, and beddings were germ free. Pasteur was also instrumental in opening a breach in the fight against cholera, yellow fever, and diphtheria.
Subject-Personal Name Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Microorganisms.
Index Term-Genre/Form Biographies.
Index Term-Genre/Form Informational works.

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