Many people take for granted the knowledge and findings of those that have made our lives easier. Ungrateful to those that have devoted their lives to saving others through scientific findings. Those scientists who have collaborated to the discovering of diseases and finding vaccinations, are people that quite a few do not know about and in some cases are unaware that these people ever existed. Louis Pasteur had one of those prestigious minds that millions are indebted to for his findings and research. Pasteur, the French scientist of the late 1800’s devoted his life to save millions. His teachings and his researched work are those of inspiration, even to this very day. Of his several findings these are by far a few that have impacted changes of perception in numerous people and brought upon innovative ways of approaching things much more effectively; his studies of fermentation, disproving spontaneous generation, and discovering and vaccinating dreadful diseases: anthrax and rabies.
One of the first studies Pasteur embarked upon and is very well know for is that of fermentation, the changing of organic matter which resulted in the production of alcoholic or acidic substances (Cuny 77). His research was to find the source of why some percentages of the fermentations were going wrong while some did not. Under the microscope, Pasteur discovered round globules of yeast, which indicated that the yeast is fine, and not at all the source of the faulty fermentations. He then soon came about a short rod like shaped structure presumed to be a sort of organism, later identified as a pathogen that was found in the substances that had been through defective fermentation. Manufactures of alcohol and acidic substances believed that the problem was going to be effortlessly fixed by simply using pure yeast instead of impure yeast which was often used (Cuny 77). Notably this method did not work; in some fermentation, the pathogen was still present. Soon the task of finding a...