Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1778

NICOLAS JOLY (1812-1885) Conférence publique sur l'hétérogénie ou génération spontanée. Librairie Germer-Baillière 1864 40 pp. 22.5 cm.

Joly, a professor on the faculty of sciences at the medical school in Toulouse, delivered this address to the Paris Faculty of Medicine in late June 1864. His presentation is a bold refutation of Pasteur's (see No. 1897 ff.) proof that the generation of living organisms is not a spontaneous process. Although Pasteur had shown that life does not occur spontaneously, he had many detractors including the author of this presumptuous, shallow paper.

See Related Record(s): 1897

Gift of John Martin, M.D.