Health’s Defenders: Pasteur’s War

This 1920s silent educational film, Armies of Health and Disease: A Film Lesson in Health and Hygiene, explores the battle between germs and medicine. Microscopic footage reveals wriggling bacteria, while dramatizations recreate Louis Pasteur’s groundbreaking anthrax experiments and rabies treatments of the 1880s. Injectable vaccines, dubbed “armies of health,” star as humanity’s shield against disease. Intertitles guide students through Pasteur’s legacy, blending science and storytelling in a hygiene lesson for the classroom.