The Mechanism of Life

THE
PROFESSEUR À L'ÉCOLE DE MÉDECINE DE NANTES
TRANSLATED BY
FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF THE RÖNTGEN SOCIETY, AND OF THE ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICAL SECTION OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE
La nature a formé, et forme tous
les jours les êtres les plus simples par
génération spontanée. Lamarck.
First Impression March 1911
Second Impression January 1914
Printed in England

Professor Leduc's Théorie Physico-chimique de la Vie et Générations Spontanées has excited a good deal of attention, and not a little opposition, on the Continent. As recently as 1907 the Académie des Sciences excluded from its Comptes Rendus the report of these experimental researches on diffusion and osmosis, because it touched too closely on the burning question of spontaneous generation.