The building up of a culture of standardization at the Institut Pasteur, 1885-1900

The present paper is intended to be published in“ Wertbestimmungen-Evaluations. Standardising therapeutic agents 1890-1930”The present paper thus primarily deals with the manner a “culture of quantification and standardization” has been introduced at the Institut Pasteur or, more precisely, has been imposed by Emile Roux (1853-1933) and his co-workers, as part of Roux's general project on the approach to infectious diseases, based on the direct coupling of research in microbiology to the production of drugs of biological or chemical origin by the institute, and to medical care in Pasteur's hospital located on the campus itself