Five papers in four issues of the Comptes Rendus / The Discovery of the Anthrax Vaccine
Louis Pasteur, Charles Chamberland, and Pierre P.E. Roux.
All from the Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences, volume 92, 1881, issues 5, 9, 12, and 24. All have been disbound from a larger bound volume, though they are each offered with their original wrappers, which makes them fairly uncommon. The text is in good condition, though it has a common fault of an old fold going through vertically at the middle, no doubt from when some early reader folded it in half and put it in their pocket. Overall, still GOOD copies. The set: $500
The issues as follows:
“Sur la longue durée de la vie des germes charbonneux et sur leur conservation dans les terres cultivées”, no. 5, the paper occupying pp 209-211 in the issue of pp 209-260;
“De l'atténuation des virus et de leur retour à la virulence", no. 9, pp 429-435 in pp 429-480;
“De la possibilité de rendre les moutons réfractaires au charbon par la méthode des inoculations préventives”, no. 12, pp 662-665 WITH “La vaccine du charbon” pp 666-668 in the issue of pp 653-768;
**“Compte rendu sommaire des experiences faites à Pouilly-le-Fort, près Melun, sur la vaccination charbonneuse”, no. 24, pp 1378-1383 in pp 1365-1476.
“The famous French microbiologist and chemist, Louis Pasteur, pioneered the use of bacterial vaccines for prevention of infectious diseases in animals and humans. One of his early successes was in the development of a vaccine for the agriculturally important disease anthrax, a vaccine that is still in use today for animals worldwide and humans in some countries. He demonstrated the effectiveness of his vaccines often with dramatic public trials, one of the most famous of which was the spectacle at the small French village of Pouilly-le-Fort in May 1881. This paper...describes the set-up and outcome of this public test of anthrax vaccination. “YALE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 75 (2002), pp. 59-62. "Originally published in Comptes Rendus... 92:1378-1383, June 13, 1881". Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. CLASSICS OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
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