Yersin

In the history of the Pasteur Institute are linked names and discoveries charting the development of biology and the struggle against some of the greatest scourges of humanity: the plague and Yersin; malaria and Laveran; typhus and

The Pasteur Institute 1998

Yersin was a rather extraordinary character from Switzerland, who as a young man went to study medicine in Paris.

The Pasteur Institute 1998

Institute, Yersin prepared an anti-plague horse serum which protected rabbits, rats and mice.

The Pasteur Institute 1998

Yersin, the former Pastorian, to go to the area of the epidemic to study the plague and find a cure.

The Pasteur Institute 1998

Yersin set to work in a bamboo hut covered in straw in Hong Kong, in rather difficult circumstances due to the lack of goodwill on the part of the

The Pasteur Institute 1998

Yersin, one of Pasteur and de Roux's closest collaborators, was entrusted, it seems, with certain biological secrets when he visited Madras in 1890, and following the instructions he received was able to prepare a serum against cholera and the plague.

FallNews - all mud and witches 1998

As her Swiss headmistress Madame Yersin commented:‘She was rather young for a sixteen-year-old.’

DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

As her Swiss headmistress Madame Yersin commented:‘She was rather young for a sixteen-year-old.’

DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

During the years 1888-1890 E. Roux and A. Yersin, working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, had shown that filtrates of diphtheria cultures which contained no bacilli, contained a substance which they called a toxin, that produced, when injected into animals, all the symptoms of diphtheria.

Emil von Behring - Biography 1967

Roux, Yersin and others, which led the foundation of our modern knowledge of the immunology of bacterial diseases; but he is, himself, chiefly remembered for his work on diphtheria and on tuberculosis.

Emil von Behring - Biography 1967