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Louis Pasteur SP

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Louis Pasteur SP
Signed photo of Louis Pasteur, the pioneering French microbiologist and chemist who demonstrated the germ theory of disease and developed the first vaccine against rabies. Exceptional 4.25'' x 6.5'' formal seated cabinet portrait by A. Gershel of Paris, signed beside his image in ink, ''L. Pasteur / Juin 1886.'' Pasteur's signature here came less than a year after he first showed the French Academy of Sciences promising results of his treatment against rabies in humans, and three months following his March 1886 presentation of a study of 350 inoculated with his rabies vaccine - of which there was only one unsuccessful treatment. In near fine condition, with a few trivial surface marks, a tiny wrinkle near left edge, and a slight bowing to the image.