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DAVAINE, Casimir Joseph (1812 – 1882)

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 …