{"id":30235,"date":"2023-07-03T05:34:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T22:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monsiteweb.be\/portrait-of-alexandre-yersin\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T03:01:32","slug":"portrait-of-alexandre-yersin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/en\/portrait-of-alexandre-yersin\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of Alexandre Yersin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<h1><span>Who was Alexandre Yersin ?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span>Alexandre Yersin, born in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud and naturalised in France, was a good man and a benefactor of humanity. He settled in Vietnam (in Annam at the time) in the small fishing town of Nha Trang and began the life of a lay saint. <\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RWgMmUMAlUQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>[\/et_pb_code][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<p><span>He treated people, discovered the plague serum, developed quinine plantations to combat malaria, planted rubber trees to finance his activities, and never asked for a penny to treat anyone. Along with Pasteur, he saved the soul of France in Vietnam, where its streets were not renamed.<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eO0vTjBNuOw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>[\/et_pb_code][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;1px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<h2>Alexandre Yersin&#8217;s biography<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;2_5,3_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/monsiteweb.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/alexandre-yersin-institutpasteur_46576.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Alexandre Yersin&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Alexandre Yersin&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<p><strong>1883-1884<\/strong><span> <\/span>Secondary school studies in Lausanne. He studied medicine in Lausanne, then in Marburg, Germa<\/p>\n<p><strong>1885-1886<\/strong><span> <\/span>He continued his medical studies in Paris, at the H\u00f4tel-Dieu, in Doctor Cornil&#8217;s department. He met E. Roux, who got him into L. Pasteur&#8217;s laboratory at the Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, where he took part in rabies vaccination sessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1887<\/strong><span> <\/span>He is accepted as a hospital extern and joined Professor J.-J. Grancher&#8217;s department at the H\u00f4pital des Enfants-malades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1888<\/strong><span> <\/span>He submitted his doctoral thesis in medicine: Etude sur le d\u00e9veloppement du tubercule exp\u00e9rimental (Study on the development of the experimental tubercle), for which he was awarded the bronze medal of the Paris Faculty of Medicine (1889). Between May and June, he attends R. Koch&#8217;s bacteriology course in Berlin.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<p><strong>1889<\/strong><span> <\/span>He was appointed to prepare the first microbiology course at the Institut Pasteur. He took part in E. Roux&#8217;s work on diphtheria, and in writing the memoirs on the diphtheria bacillus and its toxin, which appeared in the Annales de l&#8217;Institut Pasteur . He is naturalised as a French citizen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1890<\/strong><span> <\/span>He left the Institut Pasteur to become a doctor for the Messageries maritimes on the Saigon-Manila line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1891<\/strong><span> <\/span>He was assigned to the Saigon-Haiphong line. In December, he obtained leave from Messageries maritimes to explore Indochina. He met A. Calmette in Saigon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1892<\/strong><span> <\/span>At his own request, he was admitted to the Colonial Army Medical Corps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1892-1894<\/strong><span> <\/span>He carried out three exploration missions in the Mo\u00efs country (Indochina) and discovered the Lang-Bian plateau, where the town of Dalat would later rise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1894<\/strong><span> <\/span>At the request of the French government and the Institut Pasteur, he travelled to Hong Kong to study the nature of the plague epidemic raging there, and on 20 June isolated the bacillus responsible for the disease. He demonstrated the identity between the human disease and that of the rat, whose role in the epidemic he emphasised. In July, E. Duclaux sent Yersin&#8217;s note on the bubonic plague in Hong Kong to the Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences. For his discovery, he was awarded the Knight&#8217;s Cross of the Legion of Honour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1895<\/strong><span> <\/span>He was sent to the small island of Nossi-b\u00e9, near Madagascar, where he performed autopsies on patients suffering from bilious haematuric fever. On his return to France, he continued his work on the plague bacillus in the laboratory of E. Roux (Institut Pasteur), with A. Borrel and A. Calmette. Calmette, continued his work on the plague bacillus and prepared an anti-plague serum.  He obtained a new mission in Nhatrang, where he set up a small laboratory (which became the Institut Pasteur de Nhatrang in 1905) to study the diseases of Indochinese livestock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1896<\/strong><span> <\/span>He left for China, where he experimented in Canton and then in Amoy with the anti-mumps serum he had received from the Institut Pasteur in Paris. He built new buildings for his laboratory in Nhatrang and obtained a concession in Suoi Giao to create an agricultural station.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1897<\/strong><span> <\/span>He travelled to Bombay (India), where the plague had just broken out, with large supplies of anti-plague serum. The results of the injections were disappointing. The vaccine used by W. Haffkine was no more effective. P.-L. Simond, sent by the Pasteur Institute, took over.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1899<\/strong><span> <\/span>He introduced the rubber tree to Indochina. The first harvest of latex was bought by the Michelin company in 1904.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1902-1904<\/strong><span> <\/span>On the request of P. Doumer, Governor General of Indochina, created and directed the Hanoi School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1904<\/strong><span> <\/span>He was appointed representative in Indochina of the Paris Pasteur Institute and director of the Saigon and Nhatrang Pasteur Institutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16\/02\/1905<\/strong><span> <\/span>Death of his mother, with whom he kept up a regular correspondence. From then on, he sent his many letters to his sister.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1908<\/strong><span> <\/span>On the roof of his house in Nha Trang, he had a dome built to house a large astronomical telescope and a prism astrolabe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1909<\/strong><span>H <\/span>e became an associate member of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de pathologie exotique (SPE).<\/p>\n<p><strong>1915<\/strong><span> <\/span>He opened a new agricultural station at Hon Ba. First attempts to acclimatise Cinchonas to produce the quinine needed in Indochina.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1916<\/strong><span> <\/span>He was elected correspondent for the medicine and surgery section of the Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences. Lecomte Prize from the same Academy (1927). <\/p>\n<p><strong>1924<\/strong><span> <\/span>He became Inspector General of the Institut Pasteur establishments in Indochina (honorary title), with N. Bernard becoming Director of the Instituts Pasteur d&#8217;Indochine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1934<\/strong><span> <\/span>Following the death of A. Calmette and E. Roux, the Institut Pasteur&#8217;s Board of Directors created the Institut Pasteur Scientific Council, of which A. Yersin became a member. Yersin became a member alongside G. Bertrand, J. Bordet, A. Borrel, F. Mesnil and Ch. Nicolle.  At the same time, he was appointed honorary director of the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he chairs the annual general meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1939<\/strong><span> <\/span>He was promoted to Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28\/02\/1943<\/strong><span> <\/span>He died at his home in Nhatrang. H. Jacotot closes his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pasteur.fr\/fr\/institut-pasteur\/notre-histoire\/alexandre-yersin-explorateur-indochine-biologie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institut Pasteur<\/a><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandre Yersin was the discoverer of the plague bacillus, an explorer, the initiator of the future climatic station at Lang Bian (the town of Dalat), the developer of cinchona and rubber plantations&#8230; Alexandre Yersin had a full life and saved thousands of lives&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[98],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-30235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school","tag-alexandre-yersin-en"],"modified_by":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/alexandre-yersin-institutpasteur_46576.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30236,"href":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30235\/revisions\/30236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lfay.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}