Osler: Proc.Roy.Soc.Med., XI, Sect.Hist.

Med., pp.
65-69, 1918, or, Annals Med.Hist., N.Y., I, 329-332.

Cf.

also Morton's publications reprinted in Camac's book cited above .-- Ed.
In 1857, a young man, Louis Pasteur, sent to the Lille Scientific Society a paper on "Lactic Acid Fermentation" and in December of the same year presented to the Academy of Sciences in Paris a paper on "Alcoholic Fermentation" in which he concluded that "the deduplication of sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid is correlative to a phenomenon of life." A new era in medicine dates from those two publications.

The story of Pasteur's life should be read by every student.( *) It is one of the glories of human literature, and, as a record of achievement and of nobility of character, is almost without an equal.
(*) Osler wrote a preface for the 1911 English edition of the Life by Vallery-Radot .-- Ed.
At the middle of the last century we did not know much more of the actual causes of the great scourges of the race, the plagues, the fevers and the pestilences, than did the Greeks.