Louis Pasteur : his life and labours / by his son-in-law ; tr. from the French by Lady Claud Hamilton ; with an introduction by John Tyndall.

  • Vallery-Radot, René, 1853-1933.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Louis Pasteur : his life and labours / by his son-in-law ; tr. from the French by Lady Claud Hamilton ; with an introduction by John Tyndall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    and true light; that of the mterest it offers to science, and the results it may have in store for the benefit of humanity. Moreover, in Pasteur's laboratory, every dog subjected to vivisection is chloroformed. The per- sons who take Tip the controversy about vivisection are careful that the outside world shall see only the suffer- ing and anguish of the animal, where the solution of a problem should be the object kept in view. Would the English physiologist Harvey have discovered the cir- culation of the blood, if he had not practised vivisection on deer in the ]park of Charles I. ? Would Claude Bernard have been able, without vivisection, to demon- strate the glycogenic function of the liver ? If Pasteur had not sacrificed some fowls and sheep, would the great scientific fact of the attenuation of vh'us have been discovered ? If 500 dogs had to perish, what would that be, compared with the discovery to- morrow of the cause of hydrophobia, and of the means of protecting humanity against this frightful scourge ? On one occasion, in presence of a large assembly, Pasteur made an experiment on atmospheric oxygen. He placed under a glass bell a bird, which in a short time, after having consumed the oxygen contained in the bell, gathered itself up into a ball, opened its beak, and shut its eyes, as if it were going to die. At this moment Pasteur introduced a second sparrow, which, passing directly from the ordinary air into