[Auguste Lumière (1862-1943). Cinematography...and microbiology].

Auguste Lumière was the most inventive of the two brothers in the area of therapeutics and pharmacology. In 1896 he created his laboratory of experimental physiology where he discovered some organo-metallic derivatives active against syphilis, the oral vaccination against typhoid, vaseline gauze against burns. Unselfish amateur or real scientist he was a self-taught man who expended a lot of industrial activity even on erroneous scientific bases as he publicly refused the phenomenon of tuberculosis contagion in 1930.