Louis Pasteur : his life and labours / by his son-in-law ; tr. from the French by Lady Claud Hamilton ; with an introduction by John Tyndall.

  • Vallery-Radot, René, 1853-1933.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Louis Pasteur : his life and labours / by his son-in-law ; tr. from the French by Lady Claud Hamilton ; with an introduction by John Tyndall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    future labours, he entered into these thoughts and appeared to add faith to their hopes. He finished by sharing them. In January 1869, although it was still impossible for him to drag himself about his room, he was so much excited by the contradictions that his system of culture had aroused that he wished to start again for Alais. 'Aided by the method of artificial cultivation,' he remarked, * we shall soon annihilate these latest oppositions. There is here both a scientific principle and an element of national wealth.' His wish could not be opposed, but a terrible and anxious journey it was ! At some leagues from Alais, at a place called Saint Hippolyte-du-Fort, where the earhest experiments were made, Pasteur stopped. He installed himself—we might rather say he encamped —with his family and his assistants, in a more than humble lodging, one of those miserable, cold, paved houses of the rural districts. Seated in his arm- chah', Pasteur du-ected the experiments, and verified the observations which he had made the year before. Each of his predictions as to the destiny of the dif- ferent groups of worms was fulfilled to the smallest detail. In the following spring he left for Alais, where he followed in all then' phases, from the egg up to the cocoon, the cultivations there undertaken, and he had the happiness of proving once more the cerfcainty of his method.