886 - PASTEUR & PASTEUR INSTITUTE. Set of 3 documents:

PASTEUR & PASTEUR INSTITUTE. Set of 3 documents: -CALMETTE, Albert (1863–1933), French bacteriologist. Signed autograph letter. [Lille], January 29, 1902. 1 p., small 8vo. Pasteur Institute letterhead. An interesting letter devoted to the “culture of bacteria in an agitated medium forming balls.” He adds, “I have only one homogeneous tuberculosis culture from Arloing [the anatomist Saturnin Arloing (1846–1911) had succeeded in developing a liquid, homogeneous culture of the tuberculosis bacillus] for serodiagnostics […]. But as of today, I am placing a culture of Timothée’s bacillus in the shaker, which produces fairly spherical clusters […].” -PASTEUR, Louis (1822–1895). Title page of the Institut de France publication “Response by Mr. Pasteur to the speech by Mr. J. Bertrand delivered at the session on Thursday, December 10, 1885,” published in Paris by Firmin-Didot in 1885. Frayed edges. Autograph inscription signed by Louis Pasteur: “To Madame Godélier. With respectful regards [?] L. Paste[eur].” Tears affecting the right side of the dedication, with a missing section. Claire Godélier, née Fée, was a close friend of Marie Pasteur. She had married the physician Charles-Pierre Godélier (1813–1877), who was also a close friend of Louis Pasteur. -ROUX, Pierre Paul Émile (1853–1933), bacteriologist and immunologist. He was one of Pasteur’s closest collaborators, with whom he founded the Pasteur Institute. Signed autograph letter. [Paris], January 25, 1902. 1 p., small 8vo. Letterhead of the Pasteur Institute. An interesting letter concerning foot-and-mouth disease and the work of veterinarians and microbiologists Edmond Nocard (1850–1903) and Emmanuel Leclainche (1861–1953) on infectious diseases in animals. Enclosed: -MAISONNEUVE, Jacques-Gilles (1809–1897). Signed document. Saint-Louis Hospital, September 27, 1840. 1 p., quarto. Medical certificate regarding the ailments of a certain Pierre Hillaire: treatment for urethral stricture, urinary fistulas, varicose veins, hernia, etc., which are such as to “prevent him from engaging in strenuous labor or forced marches” -ORFILA, Mathieu (1787–1853), physician and chemist. Autograph letter. Vendôme, October 14, 1827. ½ p.; in-12).