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Toussaint is remembered for contributions made in the field of bacteriology. From his research, he conducted important investigations of chicken cholera, sepsis, and tuberculosis. Probably, his most significant contribution was the development of a method of vaccination against anthrax.
Jun 10, 2021 · Ironically, an anthrax vaccine had earlier been developed by Jean Joseph Henri Toussaint (1847–1890) in France. Pasteur used the same method as Toussaint, but claimed that his approach was ...
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In 1880, Pasteur reported experiments on chicken cholera, which Jean Joseph Henri Toussaint had earlier isolated. Pasteur found that using certain culture techniques, it was possible to...
- Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Life Before Vaccines. Throughout most of history, human populations have lived in an unvaccinated state, and have been extremely vulnerable to endemic and epidemic infectious disease, particularly if they had no previous exposure to a particular disease.
- Variolation and the Scourge of Smallpox. The origins of vaccination lie in the practice of variolation, which was used to protect against smallpox (a disease that killed annually an estimated 400,000 people in Europe alone in the eighteenth century).
- What We Owe to the Cows. The term vaccination comes from variolae vaccinae, or “smallpox of the cow,” otherwise known as cowpox. The close relationship between smallpox and cowpox was common lore in the eighteenth century.
- Edward Jenner and the Arm-to-Arm Method. Jenner was, however, immediately faced with a basic problem. Cowpox was a seasonal disease, common only in the spring, and it was hard to maintain a constant supply of cowpox matter.
by Pasteur’s competitor, Jean Joseph Henri Toussaint. In 1881, Victor Galtier (who had already demonstrated transmission of rabies from dogs to rabbits) reported that sheep injected with...
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Jun 22, 2021 · 2 Jean Joseph Henri Toussaint (1847–1890) was a French bacteriologist contemporary of Pasteur and worked on various infectious diseases like chicken cholera and tuberculosis. He is credited with the development of the first anthrax vaccine via chemical inactivation but during his lifetime only Pasteur received full recognition.
Mar 12, 2016 · The big difference between Jenner’s smallpox vaccination and Pasteur’s cholera vaccine was the source of the weakened form of the agent. It was known that a microorganism, e.g., smallpox, could exist in a virulent and in an avirulent natural form. And Edward Jenner (1749–1823) applied the avirulent natural form.
