Download or read book Modern History Sourcebook: Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single Web page is a plain-text version of 'Extension of the germ theory', read by Louis Pasteur before the French Academy des Sciences in May 1880 and published in Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, vol. 86. This Web page is part of the Internet modern history sourcebook, edited by Paul Halsall of Fordham University. The text has been taken from Scientific papers: physiology, medicine, surgery, geology; with introductions, notes and illustrations (N.Y.: P.F. Collier and Son, c1910).