From the Book - First edition.
Part One: Learning to see. "God preserve us all"
"Melancholy, sad and frightfull dreames"
"the satisfaction of finding out new things"
"the most marvelous of all"
Great chains and mental fetters
Part Two: Germ theory without germs. "not as a misfortune, but a crime"
"an unquestionable reality"
"propagated by human intercourse"
"the most terrible outbreak of cholera"
"I stand at the altar of the murdered men"
"the silver cord was loosed"
Part Three: Germ theory. "Life is a germ and a germ is life"
"the importance of the fact can hardly be exaggerated"
"little threadlike forms"
"We touch on the prinicple of vaccination"
"results of supreme practical importance"
"an epoch-creating announcement of colossal consequences"
"It can now be taken as conclusive"
"I felt as if I were walking across a battlefield"
Part Four: Winning the battle, losing the war. "Private 606"
"harmless, free of undesirable side effects, easily tolerated, and effective"
"the end of the beginning"
"the final result of this practice"
