Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1960.
Includes bibliographical references (pages161-162) and index.
Table of Contents -- Figure List -- Foreword -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 : From Schoolboy to Scientist -- Chapter 2 : A Student of Crystals -- Chapter 3 : Pasteur's First Steps Toward Biology -- Chapter 4 : From Crystals to Fermentation -- Chapter 5 : A Crowded Life -- Chapter 6 : Spontaneous Generation -- Chapter 7 : Pasteurization -- Chapter 8 : Utilizing Microbes -- Chapter 9 : Biochemistry and Life -- Chapter 10 : Victory Over Disease -- Chapter 11 : The Germ Theory Is Established -- Chapter 12 : The Birth of Immunology -- Chapter 13 : Further Applications of the Germ Theory of Disease -- Chapter 14 : Pasteur's Dilemma -- The Road Not Taken* -- Chapter 15 : A Dedicated Life -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index