[Introduction to the commemorative session of the centennial of the death of Louis Pasteur].

When elected a member of Académie de médecine in 1873, Pasteur was well known for his achievements in chemistry, fermentation and silk worm diseases. He denied spontaneity of diseases, their cause are living germs. Passionate disputations took place in Academy on subjects of septicaemia, childbirth fever, or fowl cholera. In 1881, his success was obtained by vaccination of sheep against epidemic anthrax: his method of virus action softening was available for many human infections diseases, in spite of many disputations. The same method applied to rabies gave him universal glory. When he died in 1895, his views on infections diseases were accepted by Academie de medecine and all over the world.