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 +''[[The Pasteurization of France]]'' (1984)
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"In the days before [[Louis Pasteur|Pasteur]] [[World population|man's population]] was maintained approximately constant from generation to generation by a cybernetic system in which the principal [[feedback]] element at the upper limit was [[disease]]. The crowd-diseases — [[smallpox]], [[cholera]], [[Typhoid fever|typhoid]], [[plague]], etc. — are, by the ecologist, labeled "density-dependent factors," whose effectiveness in reducing [[population]] is a power function of the density of the population. No growth of population could get out of hand as long as the crowd-diseases were unconquered, which means that man did not have to sit in judgment on man, to decide who should have a cover at Nature’s feast and who should not." --''[[Nature and Man's Fate]]'' (1965) by [[Garrett Hardin]] "In the days before [[Louis Pasteur|Pasteur]] [[World population|man's population]] was maintained approximately constant from generation to generation by a cybernetic system in which the principal [[feedback]] element at the upper limit was [[disease]]. The crowd-diseases — [[smallpox]], [[cholera]], [[Typhoid fever|typhoid]], [[plague]], etc. — are, by the ecologist, labeled "density-dependent factors," whose effectiveness in reducing [[population]] is a power function of the density of the population. No growth of population could get out of hand as long as the crowd-diseases were unconquered, which means that man did not have to sit in judgment on man, to decide who should have a cover at Nature’s feast and who should not." --''[[Nature and Man's Fate]]'' (1965) by [[Garrett Hardin]]
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-'''Louis Pasteur''' ([[December 27]] [[1822]] [[September 28]] [[1895]]) was a [[France|French]] [[chemist]] best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in [[microbiology]]. His experiments confirmed the [[germ theory of disease]], also reducing mortality from [[puerperal fever]] (childbed), and he created the first [[vaccine]] for [[rabies]]. He is best known to the general public for showing how to stop [[milk]] and [[wine]] from going [[sour]] - this process came to be called ''[[pasteurization]]''. He is regarded as one of the three main founders of [[microbiology]], together with [[Ferdinand Cohn]] and [[Robert Koch]]. He also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, most notably the [[asymmetry]] of [[crystals]].+{{Template}}
 +'''Louis Pasteur''' (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a [[French people|French]] [[biologist]], [[microbiologist]] and [[chemist]] renowned for his discoveries of the principles of [[vaccination]], [[fermentation|microbial fermentation]] and [[pasteurization]]. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of [[diseases]], and his discoveries have saved many lives ever since. He reduced mortality from [[puerperal fever]], and created the first vaccines for [[rabies]] and [[anthrax]].
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 +His medical discoveries provided direct support for the [[germ theory of disease]] and its application in clinical medicine. He is best known to the general public for his invention of the technique of treating [[milk]] and [[wine]] to stop bacterial contamination, a process now called [[pasteurization]]. He is regarded as one of the three main founders of [[bacteriology]], together with [[Ferdinand Cohn]] and [[Robert Koch]], and is popularly known as the "father of microbiology".
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"In the days before Pasteur man's population was maintained approximately constant from generation to generation by a cybernetic system in which the principal feedback element at the upper limit was disease. The crowd-diseases — smallpox, cholera, typhoid, plague, etc. — are, by the ecologist, labeled "density-dependent factors," whose effectiveness in reducing population is a power function of the density of the population. No growth of population could get out of hand as long as the crowd-diseases were unconquered, which means that man did not have to sit in judgment on man, to decide who should have a cover at Nature’s feast and who should not." --Nature and Man's Fate (1965) by Garrett Hardin

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Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of diseases, and his discoveries have saved many lives ever since. He reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax.

His medical discoveries provided direct support for the germ theory of disease and its application in clinical medicine. He is best known to the general public for his invention of the technique of treating milk and wine to stop bacterial contamination, a process now called pasteurization. He is regarded as one of the three main founders of bacteriology, together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch, and is popularly known as the "father of microbiology".



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