Louis Pasteur in his laboratory

By permission, from the painting by Albert Edelfelt

Copyright 1897

By G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London

Copyright 1861, 1862, 1883. 1889, 1890, 1891
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Copyright 1892

BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY

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Copyright 1910

By P. F. COLLIER & SON

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CONTENTS

THE OATH OF HIPPOCRATES

THE LAW OF HIPPOCRATES

JOURNEYS IN DIVERSE PLACES .

TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN PAGET

ON THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND BLOOD IN ANIMALS

WILLIAM HARVEY. . TRANSLATED BY ROBERT WILLIS

PAGE

3

4

AMBROISE PARE 9

THE THREE ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS ON VACCINATION

AGAINST SMALLPOX

EDWARD JENNER 153

235

THE CONTAGIOUSNESS OF PUERPERAL Fever.

O. W. HOLMES

ON THE ANTISEPTIC PRINCIPLE OF THE PRACTICE OF SURGERY 271

LORD LISTER

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL THEORY OF FERMENTATION

LOUIS PASTEUR

TRANSLATED BY F. FAULKNER AND D. C. ROBB (Revised)

65

THE GERM THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO MEDICINE AND

SURGERY (Revised)

LOUIS PASTEUR 382

TRANSLATED BY H. C. ERNST

PREJUDICES WHICH HAVE RETARDED

GEOLOGY

UNIFORMITY IN THE SERIES OF PAST

ANIMATE AND INANIMATE WORLD

1

289

ON THE EXTENSION OF THE GERM THEORY TO THE ETIOLOGY

OF CERTAIN COMMON DISEASES (Revised) LOUIS PASTEUR 391

TRANSLATED BY H. C. ERNST

THE PROGRESS OF

SIR CHARLES LYELL 405

CHANGES IN THE

SIR CHARLES LYELL 419