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that left him paralyzed on his left side.
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What did Pasteur do in the 1870s that was so crucial?
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Well, first of all,
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I'll look at two major things that he did.
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One is work with silkworms,
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and the other is work with chicken cholera and anthrax.
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The first thing was a major contribution
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to the germ theory of disease,
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accomplished by the work with an unexpected experimental animal
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that is, the silkworm.
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And again let's look at the fact that Pasteur's success,
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his influence and his genius, was in part the fact