Modern history sourcebook: Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) : germ theory and its applications to medicine and surgery, 1878.

This single Web page is a plain-text version of 'Extension of the germ theory', read by Louis Pasteur before the French Academy des Sciences in May 1880 and published in Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, vol.86. This Web page is part of the Internet modern history sourcebook, edited by Paul Halsall of Fordham University. The text has been taken from Scientific papers: physiology, medicine, surgery, geology; with introductions, notes and illustrations (N.Y.: P.F. Collier and Son, c1910).