Claude Bernard / by M. Foster.

  • Foster, M. (Michael), Sir, 1836-1907.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Claude Bernard / by M. Foster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    always wont to exchange ideas with him most fully and freely, could have thus been so long working so to speak against him, without saying so much as a word of what was in his mind. And some words on the matter passed between Pasteur and Berthelot in the Academic des Sciences. It would be unjust to lay any great stress on these rough notes of a set of experiments obviously tentative and incom- plete, or, from abrupt sentences written down here and there, to infer that Bernard thought that he had solved his problem. Still it seems very clear that he did think that he was at least on the road to the proof that alcoholic fermentation could be carried out by means of a soluble ferment, working outside the cell, and so apart from any direct action of the cell, a ferment capable of performing its task amid the free access of oxygen.