Felix d'Herelle was co-discoverer of bacteriophages and experimented with the possibility of phage therapy.
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22 Facts About Felix d'Herelle
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Between the ages of 16 and 24, Felix d'Herelle traveled extensively via money given by his mother.
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Felix d'Herelle built a home laboratory and studied microbiology from books and his own experiments.
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Felix d'Herelle contended in the paper that the results of his experiments indicated that carbon was a compound, not an element.
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Felix d'Herelle studied a local fungal infection of coffee plants, and discovered that acidifying the soil could serve as an effective treatment.
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Felix d'Herelle later stated that his scientific path began on this occasion.
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Felix d'Herelle was offered the job of running the new Mexican plant, but declined, considering it "too boring".
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Felix d'Herelle did take the time to attempt stopping a locust plague at the plantation using their own diseases.
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Felix d'Herelle extracted bacteria pathogenic to locusts from their guts.
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Felix d'Herelle got attention in the scientific community the same year, when the results of his successful attempt to counter the Mexican locust plague with Coccobacillus were published.
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In 1920, Felix d'Herelle travelled to Indochina, pursuing studies of cholera and the plague, from where he returned at the end of the year.
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D'Herelle, officially still an unpaid assistant, found himself without a lab; Felix d'Herelle later claimed this was a result of a quarrel with the assistant director of the Pasteur Institute, Albert Calmette.
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Since bacteria become resistant against a single phage, Felix d'Herelle suggested using "phage cocktails" containing different phage strains.
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Felix d'Herelle was welcomed to the Soviet Union as a hero, bringing knowledge of salvation from diseases ravaging the eastern states.
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Secondly, Felix d'Herelle was happy to be working with his friend, Professor George Eliava, founder of the Tbilisi Institute, in 1923.
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Felix d'Herelle even dedicated one of his books to Comrade Stalin: "The Bacteriophage and the Phenomenon of Recovery, " written and published in Tbilisi in 1935.
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Georgian period in Felix d'Herelle's career has been investigated by author and medical scientist David Shrayer-Petrov.
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Felix d'Herelle used the time to write his book "The Value of Experiment", as well as his memoirs, the latter being 800 pages in length.
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Felix d'Herelle was stricken with pancreatic cancer and died a forgotten man in Paris in 1949.
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Felix d'Herelle was buried in Saint-Mards-en-Othe in the department of the Aube in France.
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Felix d'Herelle had a talent for making enemies among powerful senior scientists.
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