Pmm 336 d (1 Ergebnisse)

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1863. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 56, No 10, No 16 a. No 26. Pp. (409-) 451, (729-) 808 a. (1185-) 1267. (3 entire issues offered). Pasteur's papers: pp. 416-421, 734-740 a.1189-1194. First appearance of these importent papers in which Pasteur proved and concluded that putrefaction was, like fermentation caused by living organisms and they are, therefore, analogous processes, for both involve the decomposition of substatances of organisms living in the absence of air. He also here introduced the process of "PASTEURIZATION". The last paper is listed as PMM 336 (d).In these papers "he discovered other organisms that live without air and established the idea of aerobic and anaerobic life and first used these names (1863). Aerobes were only able to live in presence of free oxygen, whereas anaerobic or zymics, as he called them, grew in the absence of oxygen."(Bullocdh "The History of Bacteriology", p. 61).…