12th English Hero No 4 Louis Pasteur by AG Ahmad

 12^th Year Hero No 4

Louis Pasteur

Q. 1. Describe the early life of Pasteur? [L.B. 2014 S G-II] [L.B. 2015 G-I] (L.B. 2017 G-I]

Or What was Pasteur's attitude towards study? [L.B. 2006, 2009]

Or When was Pasteur born? Or When and where was Pasteur borne? Or How was he educated? Or When was he went to school? Or To which school was he sent?

Or Did he show interest in his books at first? Or How did he return attention to study?

Or Where did he graduated from?

Ans. Pasteur was born at Dole, in the Jura district of France in 1822. At Arbois, he attended Communal College where at first he did not show any interest in studies but later grasped his mistake and set himself in earnest at school. His family shifted to Besancon, from where he graduated and was given a post of College Staff.

Q. 2. Why did Pasteur forget his wedding ceremony? Or Whom and When did he marry? [L.B.2005, 2010] Or What happened to Pasteur on his marriage day? (L.B. 2017 G-II]

Ans. In 1848, he became Deputy-Professor of Chemistry. He married the daughter of the Rector

of Strasburg Academy in 1850. He was so much absorbed in his work that he entirely forgot

the ceremony. A friend reminded him of his wedding day.

Q. 3. How was Pasteur a true patriot? [L.B.2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010] Or Give some instances of Pasteur's patriotism. [L.B 2013 G-II] Or How can we say that Pasteur was perhaps even more of a patriot than of a scientist? [L.B 2017 S G-I] Or Give two examples of Pasteur's patriotism. Or Describe examples of Pasteur's patriotism.

Or How patriotic Pasteur was? Or How was Pasteur called a patriot than a scientist?

Ans. Pasteur was a great patriot because. 1. He donated all his worldly wealth-150 Francs to the welfare of France. 2. In 1870, when France was on the verge of war with Germany, he joined national guard but was refused to his physical incapacity. 3. He returned the diploma of doctorate to the University of Bonn. 4. When he was refused on the score of physical incapacity by the army, he turned to the sword of science and beat Germany in the field of Brewing.

Q. 4. What do we mean by spontaneous generation? [L.B. 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010]

Ans. Spontaneous generation means the production of living things from non-living. Pasteur proved it a wrong concept. He claimed that if a substance is sufficiently heated no bacteria would produce in it.

Q. 5. How did Pasteur prove that spontaneous generation was not a fact? [L.B. 2016]

Or For what problem did the French Academy offer a prize? [L.B. 2008]

Ans. In 1860, the French Academy offered a prize for the solution of the problem of spontaneous generation. Pasteur proved that if a substance is sufficiently heated to destroy all life, then bacteria do not develop in it. Pasteur did his experiment successfully and won the prize.

Q. 6. Describe the importance and popularity of the silkworm industry in France.

Or What help did Pasteur render in curing the silkworm disease in his country?

Or What were the effects of silkworm disease?

Or What did Pasteur discover about the silk worm disease? [L.B 2013 G-I]

Ans. In 1849 the silkworms were attacked by disease. Silkworms-keeping was the major industry of Southern France. Thousands of families were faced with ruin. In 1865 the government asked Pasteur to investigate the disease. Pasteur suggested the silk growers rearing the only eggs derived from healthy moths. He directed the silkworm growers to avoid overcrowding, un-cleanliness, overheating and unhealthy conditions.

Q. 7. How did Pasteur discover the method of making vaccines? [L.B 2013 G-II] [L.B.

2016] [L.B. 2016 & 2017 G-II] Or What are vaccines and how did Pasteur discover?

Ans. In 1879, Pasteur was working at fowl-cholera. When he came after a holiday, his cultivations of germs were dead or dying. He inoculated these dying germs to birds. They fell ill but soon recovered. The idea occurred to him that weakened germs could cure. This was the discovery of vaccine.

Q. 8. Give an account of Pasteur's treatment of Hydrophobia and how he cured the first

patient suffering from it. Or How did he cure a human being suffering from Rabies?

Or What was the first human disease treated through vaccination?

Or To which human disease did Pasteur apply inoculation?

Or Who was the first human being treated by Pasteur?

Ans. In 1885, a boy Joseph Meister was brought to Paris. He was suffering from Hydrophobia or Rabies and was bitten by a mad dog. Pasteur inoculated the boy with attenuated germs for ten days. Pasteur cured the first patient of hydrophobia by inoculating him for ten days.

 Q. 9. What was the outcome of the Pasteur's discoveries? [L.B.2008] Or How did Pasteur stimulates other scientists? [L.B. 2016 S G-I] [L.B 2017 S G-I] Or Give an account of the discoveries? Or The germs of how many diseases were discovered by Pasteur's method?

Ans. Pasteur's work stirred up the other scientist to try methods of cure for other disease, and in ten years between 1881 and 1890 they discovered the germs of consumption, diphtheria, typhoid, lockjaw, cholera and Malta fever. It is impossible even to catalogue the list of the medical discoveries which have sprung from Pasteur's work.

Q. 10. How was the Pasteur Institute built?

Ans. The Pasteur Institute was built in Paris in 1888 with subscriptions which came from all parts of the world. It was an expression of the world gratitude. It was the joy of Pasteur's few remaining days.

Q. 11. How did Pasteur bring the facts of disease from the realm of the supernatural in

the realm of the natural?

Ans. Disease and death were the great mysteries, where the occult held sway. Pasteur brought the facts of disease and death from the realm of the supernatural and miraculous into the realm of the natural. He not only discovered germs but also the method of making vaccines.

Q. 12. Which superstitions did Pasteur abolish forever?

Ans. Disease and death were the great mysteries, where the occult held lunacy sway. It was thought that lunacy was caused by the influence of the moon. Demons possessed the body in fever and epilepsy. Tuberculosis (T. B) was the King's Evil, to be cured by the "Sovereign Touch". Pasteur abolished all these superstitions forever.

Q. 13. When did Pasteur die?

Ans. Pasteur died in 1895 at the age of seventy three. His works will never die. He was buried in the Pasteur's Institute Paris.

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