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Grancher Defends Rabies Vaccine

When
1887
Where
Académie Nationale de Médecine
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Grancher defends Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment

Grancher defended Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment before the Académie de Médecine in 1887, citing the vaccination's successful survival rate.

At the request of Louis Pasteur, Dr. Jacques-Joseph Grancher presented a defense of the rabies vaccination to the Académie de Médecine in 1887. Grancher, who had been responsible for the injections in Pasteur's early treatments, argued for the treatment's legitimacy by highlighting its successful survival rate among patients.

Sources

  1. Jacques-Joseph Grancher Wikipedia, revision of 2024-07-27
  2. Louis Pasteur Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-02

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