The colony prospered and more settlements were built and by 1727, Basseterre became the capital after the expulsion of the French in 1713.

Pasteur's research also showed that the growth of micro organisms was responsible for spoiling beverages, such as beer, wine and milk.

His pastels and portraits of his parents and friends, made when he was 15, were later kept in the museum of the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

After the suggestion by Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister introduced the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic and reduced surgical infections rates.

In 1932, he finished his PhD and, with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research of Heidelberg to Otto Meyerhof, where he did research on the development of flagellates.

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