Film Medical Theme: Maladies Infectieuses

Jungle Man

Language : English

Year : 1941

Medical Theme : Infectious Disease/Jungle Fever

Actors : Buster Crabbe, Charles Middleton, Sheila Darcy
Storline : An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled city of the Dead and must battle thick, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic.

The Story of Louis Pasteur

Language : English

Year : 1936

Medical Theme : Discovery of Germ Theory

Actors : Paul Munni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise, Donald Woods, Fritz Leiber, Henry O' Neil, Porter Hall, Ruth Robinson, Walter Kings ford, Herbert Cort hell, Dickie Moore

Storyline : In 1860, Chemist Louis Pasteur discovered the germ theory. He suggested to doctors to wash their hands and sterilize the instruments to avoid the spread of infection and prevent infant mortality. He was derided by the medical academy and ordered to be silent by the emperor himself. Ten years later, he vaccinated the sheep that were killed by anthrax but he was not credited for all his achievement. It was the Russians who realized his genius and France finally honored him.