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Further, I have found that when the antiseptic treatatures may be safely cut short and left to be disposed of by absorption or otherwise Should this particular branch of the subject yield all that it promises, should it turn out on further trial that when the knot is applied on the antiseptic principle, we may calculate as securely as if it were absent on the occurrence of healing without any deep- seated suppuration, the deligation of main arteries in their continuity will be deprived of the two dangers that now attend it, viz, those of secondary haee and an unhealthy state of the wound Further, it see an artery in the ie branch may be done aith; and that even the innoenious experieons, on account of its well-known fatality under the ligature for secondary haee, may cease to have this unhappy character when the tissues in the vicinity of the thread, instead of beco deco substance, are left at liberty to consolidate firn body

It would carry me far beyond the limited time which, by the rules of the association, is alone at my disposal, were I to enter into the various applications of the antiseptic principle in the several special departery

There is, however, one point more that I cannot but advert to, viz, the influence of this eneral healthiness of an hospital Previously to its introduction the two large wards in which most ofthe unhealthiest in the whole surgical division of the Glasgow Royal Infir unfavorably placed with reference to the supply of fresh air; and I have felt asha the results of rene or pyaeh melancholy, to observe that whenever all or nearly all the beds contained cases with open sores, these grievous complications were pretty sure to show theh in themselves of little interest either for myself or the students, because their presence di the patients But since the antiseptic treatht into full operation, and wounds and abscesses no longer poison the ath in other respects under precisely the saed their character; so that during the last nine rene, or erysipelas has occurred in the the cause of this change, the ierated

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL THEORY OF FERMENTATION BY LOUIS PASTEUR TRANSLATED BY F FAULKNER AND D C ROBB AND REVISED

THE GERM THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO MEDICINE AND SURGERY BY MM PASTEUR, JOURBERT, AND CHAMBERLAND TRANSLATED BY H C ERNST, M D

PROFESSOR OF BACTERIOLOGY IN THE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL

ON THE EXTENSION OF THE GERM THEORY TO THE ETIOLOGY OF CERTAIN COMMON DISEASES BY LOUIS PASTEUR TRANSLATED BY H C ERNST, M D

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

Louis Pasteur was born at Dole, Jura, France, December 27, 1822, and died near Saint-Cloud, September 28, 1895 His interest in science, and especially in chemistry, developed early, and by the time he enty-six he was professor of the physical sciences at Dijon The most important academic positions held by hi, 1849; dean of the Faculty of Sciences at Lille, 1854; science director of the Ecole Nory, physics, and chemistry at the Ecole des Beaux Arts; Professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne, 1867 After 1875 he carried on his researches at the Pasteur Institute He was a member of the Institute, and received many honors from learned societies at home and abroad

In respect of the number and importance, practical as well as scientific, of his discoveries, Pasteur has hardly a rival in the history of science He arded as the founder of anisms are the cause of fererm- theory of disease and of the antiseptic ations of the diseases of beer and wine; of pebrine, a disease affecting silk-worms; of anthrax, and of fowl cholera, were of immense commercial importance and led to conclusions which have revolutionised physiology, pathology, and therapeutics By his studies in the culture of bacteria of attenuated virulence he extended widely the practise of inoculation with ai papers present some of the most important of his contributions, and exeument

TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER FORMERLY A SOLDIER UNDER THE FIRST EMPIRE CHEVALIER OF THE LEGION OF HONOR

The longer I live, the better I understand the kindness of thy heart and the high quality of thy mind

The efforts which I have devoted to these Studies, as well as those which preceded the to honor these filial remembrances, I dedicate this work to thy memory

L PASTEUR

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

Our misfortunes inspired me with the idea of these researches I undertook them immediately after the war of 1870, and have since continued the the a branch of industry wherein we are undoubtedly surpassed by Germany

I am convinced that I have found a precise, practical solution of the arduous problem which I proposed to myself--that of a process of manufacture, independent of season and locality, which should obviate the necessity of having recourse to the costlyprocesses, and at the sath of time

These new studies are based on the saar, and the silkworm disease-- principles, the applications of which are practically unliious diseases ht

I need not hazard any prediction concerning the advantages likely to accrue to the brewing industry fro as my study of the subject has enabled me to devise, and from an application of the novel facts upon which this process is founded Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am not unaware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor

I began my researches at Clermont-Ferrand, in the laboratory, and with the help, of my friend M Duclaux, professor of chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of that town I continued thereat brewery of Tourtel Brothers, of Tantonville, which is adentlemen for their extreratitude to M Kuhn, a skillful brewer of Chamalieres, near Clermont-Ferrand, as well as to M Velten of Marseilles, and to MM de Tassigny, of Reims, who have placed at my disposal their establisherness

L PASTEUR