Louis W. Sauer

Louis W. Sauer
Louis W. Sauer
	Cincinnati, Ohio
Died	February 10, 1980 (aged 94); Coral Gables, Florida
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Spouse	Lucia Mira Seypelt (m. 1912)

Louis Wendlin Sauer (August 13, 1885 – February 10, 1980) was an American pediatrician who became known for perfecting the vaccine used to prevent pertussis (whooping cough), saving countless lives around the world.

Biography

Louis W. Sauer was born in Cincinnati on August 13, 1885. He married Lucia Mira Seypelt on August 20, 1912 in Berlin, while attending school there. He graduated from Rush Medical College in 1913 and began working in pediatrics.^[1]^[2]

Sauer established a practice at

Evanston Hospital, in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. He earned an MD in Berlin, and his PhD at the University of Chicago.^[2]

After five years of work, Dr. Sauer developed the vaccine in 1931, inoculating children against pertussis, a respiratory infection that had been the most fatal disease for children under two years old.

pertussis and tetanus to be administered as a single injection. Dr. Sauer never asked for compensation for developing vaccines and told an interviewer later, "One doesn't do that thing for money."^[3]

Dr. Sauer was a professor at the

congestive heart failure.^[2]