Contenido : Journeys in diverse places / ambroise pare. -- on the Heart and blood in animals / William Harvey. -- the three original publications on vaccination against small pox / Edward Jenner. -- the contagiousness of puerperal fever / Oliver Wendell Holmes. -- on the antiseptic principle of the practice of surgery / Joseph Lister. -- the physiological theory of fermentation / Louis Pasteur. -- the germ theory and its applications to medicine and surgery / M.M. Pasteur Jourben, and Chamberland. -- on the extension of the Germ theory to the etiology of Certain common diseases / Louis Pasteur. -- prejuaires which have retarded the progress of geology / Sir Charles Lyell