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Joseph Meister. Joseph Meister (21 February 1876 – 24 June 1940) was the first person to be inoculated against rabies by Louis Pasteur, and likely the first person to be successfully treated for the infection, which has a >99% fatality rate once symptoms set in.
Early in the morning of July 4, 1885, a “mad dog” attacked a 9-year-old boy from Alsace, France. His name was Joseph Meister. The vicious and crazed dog proceeded to throw the boy to the ...
Dr. Jacques Joseph Grancher convinced Louis Pasteur and his colleagues to vaccinate the young man. This first human rabies vaccination was a resounding success. Joseph Meister filmed on the 50th anniversary of the first anti-rabies serum cure. He was the first recipient of the vaccine, which was administered in 1885. Broadcast on July 5, 1935.
Jul 6, 2015 · As TIME recounted in 1939: One hot July morning in 1885, feverish little Joseph Meister was dragged by his frantic mother through the streets of Paris in search of an unknown scientist who ...
Sep 29, 2017 · One hot July morning in 1885, feverish little Joseph Meister was dragged by his frantic mother through the streets of Paris in search of an unknown scientist who, according to rumors, could prevent rabies. For nine-year-old Joseph had been bitten in 14 places by a huge, mad dog and in a desperate attempt to cheat death, his mother had fled from ...
Aug 13, 2016 · In the summer of 1885 an anguished Madame Meister brought her nine-year-old son, Joseph, to the laboratory of a scientist named Louis Pasteur. With 14 cauterized dog bites on his legs and hand, the boy could barely walk. Joseph’s mother feared the worst but hoped Pasteur, already a public figure in France, could save her son.
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Louis Pasteur stepped onto the world stage with a famous experiment borne out of necessity. In July 1885, a rabid dog attacked a boy named Joseph Meister. At a time when this would have been a death sentence from rabies, Joseph’s mother asked for help from Louis Pasteur, who she heard was working on a cure for rabies.
