Louis Pasteur

Ileana Condoy

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur carried out tests on animals, until in 1885 the occasion arose for the first human trial, although it was again due to an accident: a child was bitten by a dog affected by rabies, a nervous disease whose fatality it is almost 100%, so if he had been infected - which was not entirely certain - trying to vaccinate him was his only chance of salvation. Pasteur made a very risky decision, since he was not a doctor nor was his vaccine sufficiently proven; for his luck and the boy's, the treatment worked, opening up a whole new world of possibilities in the medical field.

The rabies vaccine

"Louis Pasteur was neither a doctor nor a surgeon, but no one has done as much for medicine and surgery as he did."