Casimir Davaine

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

Casimir Davaine(1812-1882] was a French physician known for his work in the field of microbiology.

In 1850, Davaine along with French dermalogist Pierre François Olive Rayer (1793-1867) discovered a certain microorganism in the blood of diseased and dying sheep. In the diseased blood, Rayer and Davaine isolated the bacillus which is known as anthrax. Soon afterwards, Rayer published an essay on anthrax, which contained the first description of Bacillus anthracis.

In 1863 Davaine demonstrated that the anthrax bacillus could be directly transmitted from one animal to another. He was able to identify the causitive organism but unable to solve what created it. That was left to German physician Robert Koch (1843-1910) who discovered the epidemiology (root cause) of anthrax poisoning.

Casimir Davaine is also credited for pioneer work in the study of septicemia (blood poisoning).

[edit] Reference

  • Nancy Tomes The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
 This biographical article related to medicine is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../c/a/s/Casimir_Davaine_3c2f.html"