Henry Charlton Bastian

Henry Charlton Bastian (April 26, 1837 – November 17, 1915) was British neurologist and bacteriologist, noted for his extensive work in neurological science and his fierce advocacy of archebiosis ("Spontaneous Generation"), which he reported to have demonstrated experimentally.

Background
Bastian entered University College, London in 1856, graduating M.A. from the University of London in 1861, and M.D. in 1866. In addition to his career as a physician (at both the college hospital and National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic), he was a professor of pathological anatomy, and later professor of medicine and clinical medicine, at the University College.

Selected Bibliography

 * "The Beginnings of Life: Being Some Account of the Nature, Modes of Origin and Transformations of Lower Organisms" (1872)
 * "Evolution and the Origin of Life" (1874)
 * "Brain as an organ of mind" (1880)
 * "Studies in Heterogenesis" (1904)
 * "The Nature and Origin of Living Matter" (1905)
 * "The Origin of Life" (1911)