A biography of the great French chemist and crystallographer, Louis Pasteur, who invented the Pasteurization Process, identified microbes as a cause of infectious disease, and developed the first vaccine against rabies.

"From the lives of men who have marked their passage with a trail of enduring light, let us piously gather, for the benefit of posterity, every detail, down to the slightest words, the slightest acts calculated to reveal the guiding principles of their great souls." -- Louis Pasteur

CONTENTS:

1. A Studious Boyhood
2. A Laborious and Enthusiastic Youth
3. On the Road to Fame
4. For the National Wealth
5. The Spirit of Patriotism
6. The Curative Poison
7. The Sovereignty of Genius
8. Hydrophobia
9. The Pasteur Institute
10. The Supreme Homage
11. The Last Days of a Great Man
    Brief Index of the Principal Names Cited

Albert Keim and Louis Lumet, French authors from the turn of the 20th century, collaborated in writing several biographies; including the biographies of Balzac, Beethoven, Dickens, and Pasteur. Most were translated into English from the original French by Frederic Taber Cooper.