Pasteurization and Milk Preservation

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Excerpt from Pasteurization and Milk Preservation: With a Chapter on the City Milk Supply Born Dec. 27, 1822, this son of a tanner early showed his extraordinary talent, and if I was to attempt only to enumerate the results of his life's work, it would take more space than this pamphlet. Nevertheless I cannot publish a treatise on Pasteurizing without hinting at some of the benefits which the farmers have derived from this great man's work. He is the first one who studied this world of bacteria, or, as he called it, "infinite little, " in a systematic manner. Thus he proved how fermentations such as in beer, wine and milk are due to living organisms and that different bodies are acted upon by different ferments. He also showed how most - if not all - epidemic or infectious diseases are due to these little fellows and that when once properly known the remedy for the disease may be found. Thus, he saved millions of dollars to the silk worm growers in southern Europe and to the sheep farmers of Australia. The manufacturers of vinegar learned from him that the true vinegar ferment is a little fungus. The wine growers learned that by heating their light wines to 140° and cooling them again, they could preserve them much longer. The brewers received the hint that it was possible to make a uniform good beer, which would keep well, by the same process of heating and cooling (pasteurization) and the use of a pure culture yeast. All these hints, even if they have not been developed practically by Pasteur, have saved millions of dollars to the farmers. Though Pasteur never took up the milk studies, he is said to have remarked to an English scientist with a sigh: "Ah! there is a rich field indeed for investigations." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.