Davaine

[ dä-vān′, -vĕn′ ]

Casimir Joseph 1812-1882

French physician and microbiologist who identified a bacillus as the causative agent of anthrax and advocated the germ theory of disease before Pasteur.

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dens in dente, dense, densify, densimeter, densitometer, Davaine, density current, density function, dent, dent corn, dent-

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They inoculated some rabbits, as Davaine desired, with the blood of a cow which had died of splenic fever.

Louis Pasteur |Ren Vallery-Radot
Davaine experimented on cows, and Leuckart also experimented on horses, with the eggs of this worm without success.

Parasites |T. Spencer Cobbold
This was what Davaine was the first to show with regard to Bacillus anthracis, which causes charbon.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 |Various
It is now known that this was because the bacilli were in the spore form which Davaine did not recognize.

The Fundamentals of Bacteriology |Charles Bradfield Morrey

Then came the experimental evidence of Davaine and Koch, who demonstrated the development of bacteria from spores.

An Epitome of the History of Medicine |Roswell Park

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