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CLAIMS AND CONTRADICTIONS 67
work so far as possible in silence. This human weakness of
jealousy was no doubt one of the contributory causes of
the setting aside of important discoveries, which, after-
1
wards ascribed to Biichner in 1897 , were actually made
by Bechamp before 1864, in which year he first publicly
employed the name zymase for the soluble ferment of
yeasts and moulds. And it is now to these researches of
his that we shall do well to turn our attention.
1
See pp. 19, 74, 75, 162.
