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Glass flask used by Louis Pasteur, France, 1860-1864

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Louis Pasteur: the attic in which he cultured broth designed to test the theory of spontaneous generatation. Photograph.

Bronze statue of Louis Pasteur, Europe, 1870-1890

Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection.

Le ver, le démon et la vierge : les théories médiévales de la génération extraordinaire : une étude sur les rapports entre théologie, philosophie naturelle et médecine / Maaike Van der Lugt.

Airborne particles and the germ theory : 1860-1880 / by J.K. Crellin.

A short essay on the propagation and dispersion of animals and vegetables, being cheifly [sic] intended as an answer to a letter lately published, and supposed to be written by a gentleman of Exeter, in favour of equivocal generation.

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Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection.

Le ver, le démon et la vierge : les théories médiévales de la génération extraordinaire : une étude sur les rapports entre théologie, philosophie naturelle et médecine / Maaike Van der Lugt.

Airborne particles and the germ theory : 1860-1880 / by J.K. Crellin.

A short essay on the propagation and dispersion of animals and vegetables, being cheifly [sic] intended as an answer to a letter lately published, and supposed to be written by a gentleman of Exeter, in favour of equivocal generation.

Bronze statue of Louis Pasteur, Europe, 1870-1890