单词 | pasteurian |
释义 | Pasteurianadj.n. Now chiefly historical. A. adj. Of or relating to Louis Pasteur or his ideas and methods. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [adjective] > 19th or 20th century Jennerian1801 Listerian1880 Pasteurian1887 Trendelenburg1892 1887 Contemp. Rev. June 810 How many lives has the Pasteurian delusion actually cost? For how many deaths are Pasteur and his supporters responsible? 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. vii. 138 Protective inoculations..prepared on the Pasteurian system of attenuation. 1920 E. F. Smith & F. Hedges tr. E. Duclaux Pasteur p. xiii These were the heroic times of the Pasteurian struggle. 1975 Nature 11 Dec. 469/3 The dogmatism which followed the Pasteurian view of infection must be replaced with something more realistically positive. 1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind xiv. 437 The classic Pasteurian method, which was to reproduce the disease in animals and then look for the organism. B. n. A supporter of Pasteur's theories; a person who uses Pasteur's methods. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > 19th or 20th century Brunonian1785 Thomsonian1853 naturopath1901 Pasteurian1920 Couéist1922 1920 E. F. Smith & F. Hedges in tr. E. Duclaux Pasteur p. xx It was Duclaux of all the Pasteurians, who possessed most fully the entire tradition of the master. 1966 Q. Rev. Biol. 41 335/2 The germ theory of disease was established by Bassi and the Pasteurians. 1991 K. Spink tr. D. Lapierre Beyond Love iii. xxxv. 218 Robert Gallo was convinced it was still ‘his’ retrovirus the well-meaning ‘Pasteurians’ had just sighted in their test tubes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1887 |
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