DAVAINE, Casimir Joseph (1812 – 1882)
1812 – 1882
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Unknown author Unknown author · Hervé Bazin, L'Histoire des vaccinations . John Libbey Eurotext, Paris 2008, p. 166. Originally published in A. Davaine, L'Œuvre de C.-J. Davaine . J.-B. Baillière, Paris 1899. · Public domain
1860 CE
#2451
Traité des entozoaires et des maladies vermineuses.
1863 CE
#5165
Recherches sur les infusoires du sang dans la maladie connue sous le nom de sang de rate.
Davaine showed that anthrax could be transmitted to sheep, horses, cattle, guinea-pigs, and mice, and that in such animals the bacilli did not appear in the blood until 4-5 hours before death.
1865 CE
#5166
Recherches sur la nature et la constitution anatomique de la pustule maligne.
Davaine was the first conclusively to prove that a definite disease (anthrax) was due to a definite micro-organism (B. anthracis), and was thus one of the first to prove the germ theory of disease. He showed that the …