Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Harveian Oration: On the Influence of Harvey's Work in the Development of the Doctrine of Infection and Immunity; Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London, on October 18th, 1913
I am content to close this portion of the history of the etiology of fever in 1858. In that year Pasteur sterilised water, and by a Simple-looking experiment finally solved the problem of the rela tion to each other of the two extrinsic elements of infection - contagia and their media.
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