The story of Pittsburgh: Hospitals

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623870

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241156

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Title:: Hospitals

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 16

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: [ca. 100] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The pasteur institute

Collection:: Economics Books

race has to fight against the diseases of the world. Pasteur- ians endeavor to take care of all infectious diseases and help the man and his domestic animals to live. And to do this a regular living material must be used in order to carry out what the master has given—the principle of Louis Pasteur. In 1889 Paul Gibier arrived in New York with Dr. A. Leteve, ex-aide d’anatomie et ex-interne des Hopitaux de la Faculte de Medicine de Lille, France, as director of labora- tories, and started the Pasteur Institute of New York. Ten years later Dr. A. Leteve came to Pittsburgh, and started, with the help of the Sisters of Mercy, the Pasteur Institute at the Magee Pathological Institute of the Mercy Hospital. At this time the virus vaccine was received from Dr. Cal- mette, then director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille, France. The Pasteur Institute being necessarily an independent institution, a separation from the Mercy Hospital was made in 1919. Since 1924 the office of the Pasteur Institute of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been located in the Descalzi Building at 1004 Wylie Avenue, with Dr. A. Leteve, consular agent of France and also the Director of the Pasteur Institute of Pittsburgh, in charge, and Walter B. Willis. director of laboratories. The record of this Institute in Pittsburgh and its treat- ment of rabies is widely known, having a percentage that is really enviable and astonishing in comparison with others who treat these cases, in fact, a mortality of 14 of 19. These few words are given in case of a supposed infection of rabies: (1) A person or persons bitten by a dog, no matter how small the wound, should keep the animal under observation {or 14 days, because the salvia of the animal is infectious six days, at least, before it shows any sign. (2) After two weeks if the dog or animal shows no sign the person is safe, but it is to be recommended that the wound be considered infectious and treated as such by a regular ohysican. Records of the Pasteur Institute have been preserved by the Mercy Hospital, and a treatise of the subject is given by Leasure K. Darbaker, Ph.G., Phar. D., head of the Depart- ment of Pharmacognosy and Bacteriology of the Pittsburgh

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