| Date | 1864 |
| Author | Pasteur |
| Contribution | b. Lectured in opposition to theory of spontaneous generation. |
| Reference | Geison |
| Notes | Famous lecture at the Sorbonne (April 7) decisively repudiating theory of spontaneous generation, and refuting arguments of Pouchet. Included demonstration of his swan-neck flasks. According to Geison, Pasteur held that dusts may carry "the germs of disease and death: typhus, cholera, yellow fever, and many other plagues." The quote is from Geison, but it is not given by him as a quote from Pasteur. What were Pasteur's actual words? |
| Category | Miscellany |
| Pathogen Class | General |
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