Pasteur's discovery of the microbial cause of puerperal fever has in itself enormously reduced the deaths of women in child-birth.
"The Pros and Cons of Vivisection"
Charles Richet Commentator: W. D. Halliburton
At the lowest degree of the scale of organisms we already find veritable associations, microbial colonies, and in these associations, according to a recent work, a tendency to individuate by the constitution of a nucleus.
"Creative Evolution"
Henri Bergson