CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Preface iii 



CHAPTER 



I. Home Life, Early Training and Ambitions . 3 



II. Experiments in Chemistry and Crystalliza- 

 tion 21 



III. The World of Microscopic Life .... 41 



IV. Studies in Fermentation 61 



V. Controversies over Spontaneous Generation . 83 



VI. The Diseases of Wine and Vinegar . . .111 



VII. The Diseases of Silk Worms 125 



VIII. The Dark Days of the War: Studies on Beer 143 



IX. Antiseptic Surgery, Fowl Cholera and An- 

 thrax 151 



X. The Dawn of a New Era in Medicine . . . 179 



XI. The Conquest of Hydrophobia .... 201 



XII. Last Days 229 



Index 243 



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