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Louis Pasteur: Germs
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French chemist Louis Pasteur was the founder of microbiological sciences. Pasteur's studies of fermentation began in Lille when he was approached by an industrialist disturbed because undesirable products often appeared during the fermentation of sugar into alcohol by yeast. Pasteur postulated that these products came from microscopic organisms other than yeast and suggested that each particular type of fermentation was the effect of a specific microorganism, called the germ. He soon illustrated this revolutionary theory with brilliant studies on the conversion of sugar.
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Amidst the jubilation on the help extended by Louis Pasteur with distillers on the fermentation process, a debate was ongoing in the scientific world on the theory of "spontaneous generation". Pasteur joined the fray and debunked the theory that beetles, maggots, eels and microbes could arise simultaneously from decaying matter. By a simple experiment he was able to prove that under no circumstance can microscopic beings be born into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Thus he single handedly extinguished the fire on "spontaneous generation".
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In 1860 Paris a man shoots a doctor for killing his wife by not washing his hands as advised by Louis Pasteur (Paul Muni) because of microbes. Pasteur says that three of ten women are dying in child-birth because of germs from doctors. Napoleon III invites Pasteur, who accuses Dr. Charbonnet (Fritz Leiber) of killing his patient. The emperor orders Pasteur to confine himself to preserving wine and beer and to retract his pamphlet. Pasteur, his wife Marie (Josephine Hutchinson), and daughter Annette (Anita Louise) leave Paris.
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