Recommended: Achievement of Louis Pasteur
Doctors and scientist became desperate to test the cell
As soon as Gey realized what he had discovered he ordered a large factory to be built to mass produce HeLa cells, its main purpose was to discover a cure for Polio (Skloot, Pg. 93), but not only did it provide aid in the medical world, but companies such as cosmetic corporations could test the effects of their makeup and other cosmetics on cell health (Skloot, Pg. 102). The possibilities of research with HeLa cell were endless, anything from the research on atomic radiations effect on cells and how to reverse the damage, to the discovery of cells being able to live on after the extraction of their nucleus, and even the vast amount of studies of chemotherapy drugs, hormones, vitamins, and environmental stress proved the importance of HeLa cells in modern research (Skloot, Pg. 102). For the first time ever, scientists were able to properly identify the correct number of chromosomes and map them out, this further lead to the ability of being able to diagnose diseases where individuals had an excess or lack of chromosomes such as Trisomy 21 or Klinefelter syndrome (Skloot, Pg. 100). The science world had finally found a way to overcome the expense and strenuous procedures to obtain cell subjects, scientist could test the effect of gravity, the pressure of deep sea diving by spinning the cells in a centrifuge (Skloot,
They wondered if Henrietta’s cells were susceptible to polio. They did think that they were so they tested this hypothesis by infecting Henrietta’s cells with the polio virus. The experiment proved that Henrietta’s cells were susceptible to polio so they sent them to researchers all around the
Researches at Hopkins, frequently performed test on their patients, for example injecting them with cancerous cells to see how their bodies would react. Since they saw nothing wrong doctors
In order to research the theory of cancerous cells being infectious, two scientists traveled to an Ohio maximum security prison to conduct several experiments on prisoners. This testing involved taking the HeLa cells, and injecting the prisoners, to observe possible reactions. Despite the fact that the prisoners were informed of the risks, this experimentation was conducted intentionally to cause disease in another human being. This theory, however, was disproved as an infectious cancer because none of the test subjects developed full blown cancer.
They were sure they had a vaccine that would work but it was for a bacteria and not a virus. Eventually in December of 1920 Robert didn’t have to worry anymore because the pandemic came to an
The test got promising results but some people don’t think the test should be trusted because they feel that the Germans may have tampered with it. They forced the test subjects to take pills and injected them with drugs. They got a lot of new medicine and poisons from doing this. The drugs that they used to kill them we use them today to cure things like “discovery of aspirin in 1899” came from these experiments.
They found new medicine to cure diseases and limit child labor laws so children under a certain age wouldn’t have to be forced to work. This new medicine would help children not suffer from smallpox. Smallpox was a disease that would spread like a wildfire that would make your skin itch and turn all red. The creator of the smallpox vaccine was Edward Jenner. There were about 1500 inhabitants who worked in the mills.
Louis Pasteur A chemist, innovator, and microbiologist, Louis Pasteur brought forth a wide number of accomplishments; large and small. A list of the most renowned achievements includes the discovery and invention of pasteurization, vaccines for both rabies and anthrax, and germ theory; all significant advances in the world of science. Beginning his life in the commune of Dole, located in France, Louis was now a part of the Pasteur family. He was described as an average student by his teachers in his early times, although having an artistic talent.
Then, there was a sterilization experiment. They conducted the experiment by using drugs, surgery, and x-rays. Thousands of victims were experimented on. The most common choice was radiation treatment. The victims were deceived into going into a room where the treatment was being held.
His experiments were very disturbing and hard to read about. Many of his experiments involved twins, giants, dwarfs and romas. Some of his most know and disturbing experiments were on twins. Some of his many twin experiments included trying to change eyes color, injecting diseases into one twin, surgeries without anesthesia and more. In one of his many experiments he attempted to change the twins eye colors.
Robert Koch revolutionized the medical field. His discovery of the bacteria causing tuberculosis gained the medical field a new sense of authority and legitimacy. Koch’s discovery debunked traditional views such as tuberculosis being genetic and a disease of the poor and immigrants. The discovery also led to the rise of two different groups: public health groups wanting to prevent tuberculosis and the sanatorium looking for cures to tuberculosis. The start of the widespread belief in bacteriology led to the aggressive promotion of public health.
Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and biologist, has perhaps made more of an impact on the prevention of disease than any other human. His contributions to germ theory and the development of vaccines have contributed to millions of lives being saved and some formerly disastrous diseases, like smallpox, being nearly eradicated. Pasteur began his work as a student in 1849 when there was much controversy of the origination of disease- whether it occurred spontaneously or whether there was something about it that led to their being contagious and thus spread. Pasteur argued that there was a component to disease that was yet undetected, and this is what he sought to find and prove. As he studied new fields of microbiology, Pasteur was open to
He injected chloroform into the hearts of twins to see if they would die at the same time and way. On dwarfs serological research, and skeletal examination. In effort to study eye color he injected a serum into the eyeballs of children casing extreme pain. They were castrated frozen to death or exposed to other traumas. Another experiment would put them in pressure chambers test with drugs.
“How did the book change your perspective or increase your understanding of your topic or the time during which it occurred?” Louis Pasteur Fighter against contagious disease, by Marylou Morano Kjelle, gave me a better understanding on all the different inventions and discoveries Louis Pasteur worked on. Marylou in this book focused on not only Louis Pasteur’s inventions but his way of thinking and figuring things out. While reading this book I have realized that louis Pasteur has went through a lot over the years of his life.
