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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    pure as possible. At the Exhibition of Amsterdam there might be seen bottles half full, containing a per- fectly clear beer, which had been tapped from the time of opening of the Exhibition. This was French beer, manufactured according to Pasteur's principles, by a great brewer of Marseilles, M. Velten. The happy effect of these studies is universally recognised. At Copenhagen, M. Jacobsen has had a bust of Pasteur, by Paul Dubois, placed in the salle dlionneur of his celebrated laboratory. In terminating his Studies on Beer, Pasteur re- called to mind the principles which for twenty years had directed his labours, the resources and applica- tions of which appeared to him unlimited. ' The etiology of contagious diseases,' he wrote with a scien- tific certainty of conviction, ' is on the eve of having unexpected light shed upon it.' 10