Louis Pasteur: A Biography (Classic Reprint)

L OUIS PASTEUR is one of the glories of France, and, .among them all, the one vhose light shines clearest and most fertile in results. His name has radiated throughout the world, and for scientists and laymen alike it symbolises that spirit of humanity which strove to succour all the ills of his fellow men and that genius for invention which opened vast new horizons to the researches of science. His sovereignty is now undisputed, there is no nation which has not rendered him due homage, and, as his fame has "ridened, it has, according to his own desire, increased the moral patrimony and the intellectual force of his native land.

Table of Contents

I A STUDIOUS BOYHOOD • 1; II A LABORIOUS AND E~THUSIASTIC YOUTH; · 16; III ON THE ROAD TO F AlIE 45; IV FOR THE NATIONAL 'VEALTH 71; V THE SrmlT OF PATRIOTISM · 101; VI TilE CURATIVE POISON • · 114; VII THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GENIUS· · 136; VIII II YDROPHOBIA · 161; IX THE P ASTEUR INSTITUTE · 176; X TIIF SUPRElIE HOMA