ILLUSTRATIONS 



LOUIS PASTEUR Frontispiece 



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PASTEUR'S BIRTHPLACE 



The house on the Rue des Tanneurs, at 

 Dole, in which Louis Pasteur was born, on 

 December 27th, 1822, in a modest family of 

 the laboring class 20 



PASTEUR AT THE AGE OF THIRTY 



In 1852, the great scientist was appointed 

 titular professor of chemistry at Strasburg, 

 where he conducted a number of researches 

 in crystalography. To the left is one of the 

 glass globes which were employed in certain 

 celebrated experiments relating to spon- 

 taneous generation 52 



VACCINATION AGAINST HYDROPHOBIA 



One of the rooms in the Institute, in which, 

 thanks to Pasteur's genius, the virus of one 

 of the most terrible scourges in the world is 

 rendered impotent. Through this discovery, 

 Pasteur is enrolled in the number of the 

 great benefactors of humanity ... 84 



