18 Facts About Paul Gibier

Paul Gibier was a French medical doctor, bacteriologist, and researcher of contagious diseases who founded the New York Pasteur Institute.

Paul Gibier was known for his interest in psychic phenomena.

Paul Gibier worked in a machine shop, served in the French cavalry in Africa and worked as a clerk for a railway company.

Paul Gibier then attended the University of Paris, where he obtained a degree in medicine.

In Paris, Paul Gibier formed a circle of people interested in Spiritualism, which included Caroline de Barrau.

In 1887, Paul Gibier published Le spiritisme, a critical and experimental study that included discussion of mediums, North American Indians and Hindu Fakirs.

In 1889, Paul Gibier published his Physiologie transcendantale: Analyse des choses in which he described his research into psychological physiology, including careful studies of hypnotism, telepathy, duplication and so on.

Paul Gibier hoped to find the yellow fever microbe reported by Dr Domingos Jose Freire of the Rio de Janeiro faculty of medicine.

Paul Gibier reached Havana in November 1887, but could not find the micro-organisms in the blood of victims that Freire reported.

Paul Gibier did find a bacillus in the intestine of a victim that seemed a possible cause of the disease, but further tests did not confirm this.

In 1890, Paul Gibier founded the Pasteur Institute in New York for inoculation of people who rabid animals had bitten.

Paul Gibier's institute laid the foundation for the modern bio-medical industry.

Paul Gibier successfully improvised new methods of culturing microbes and producing sera and antitoxins.

In December 1893, Paul Gibier was the subject of a feature article in the New York Times.

Paul Gibier joined the New York Academy of Medicine and the Medical Association of New York.

Paul Gibier's institute was the first in the United States to produce a diphtheria antitoxin.

Paul Gibier thought that only the doctor could diagnose diseases such as socialism and anarchy, and that with his knowledge of genetics, he could "contribute to the purification of the race" through marriage counseling.

In June 1900, Paul Gibier was killed in an accident with a runaway carriage.