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CAN Bacteria or their germs live in liquor potassæ (Pharm. Brit.) when it is raised to the boiling-point (212° F.)? Such is now the simple issue to which certain great controversies have been reduced. If Bacteria germs cannot resist such an exposure, thens by M. Pasteur's own implicit admission, his exclusive germtheory of fermentation must be considered to be overthrown by the broader physico-chemical theory. The truth or not of M. Pasteur's germ-theory is the central question in dispute, but standing on either side, or in close juxtaposition, are two dependent subjects of controversy whose importance for biological science and for medicine is even greater.
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BASTIAN, H. The Fermentation of Urine and the Germ Theory . Nature 14, 309–311 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014309f0
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