Louis Pasteur Word Scramble

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Louis Pasteur's father had been a soldier in Napoleon's army. After Louis graduated he went to the Royal College in Besancon where he earned his B.A. and then a Bachelor of Science degree two years later at the age of twenty. In 1847 he received a doctorate degree and became a professor at age twenty-six. He fell in love with and married Marie Laurent and they had five children. His research led to the process of pasteurization of milk to kill viruses and harmful bacteria. He named the new science bacteriology and suggested a new theory, The Germ Theory of Disease. He believed that diseases were caused by germs attacking the body from the outside. he suffered a stroke and paralysis. For several months he was completely paralyzed. He was only 45 years old. After two years he began to recover the use of his body. Pasteur devoted the rest of his life developing vaccines for people against such diseases as cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis and smallpox. He developed a vaccine for rabies. Thousands of people since that time have received rabies vaccinations and been saved from getting the disease which is almost always fatal.

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