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 | | The doctor's name is Ernest Augustin Duchesne, and regrettably, his doctoral thesis, "Study of vital competition in the micro-organisms: antagonisms between the moulds and the microbes," has fallen on deaf ears. |
 | | is able to attenuate in very notable proportions the virulence of these bacterial cultures" is promising enough, but in addition to the general resistance to any new idea, Duchesne's lack of resources and military duties have prevented him from conducting further research. |
 | | Du Pont, realizing that his family business needs to diversify away from its dependence on gunpowder (cyclic, and at times the cause of opprobrium directed toward it) suggests that his firm's chemical knowledge and financial backing could be used to develop an extract with medicinal properties, and invites Duchesne to America. |
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