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leaders of French medicine whose influence and inspira- 

 tion the student of today may seek. 



Roux, the director of the Pasteur Institute, who 

 with Yersin, in 1888, demonstrated the existence of the 

 toxin of diphtheria, and later, independently and almost 

 simultaneously with Behring, introduced the method 

 of treating diphtheria by antitoxin. 



RICHET, the brilliant professor of physiology, who with 

 HERICOURT in 1888 demonstrated the presence of antitoxic 

 substances in the blood of animals convalescent from infec- 

 tious diseases; who in 1891 made the first sero- therapeutic 

 injection in man; who with PORTIER in 1902 first demon- 

 strated the important phenomenon of anaphylaxis. 



LAVERAN, the distinguished discoverer of the parasites 

 of malaria, who from the laboratory of the Institut Pasteur 

 is still giving forth valuable contributions to parasitology. 



LANDOUZY, whose name, with that of DEJERINE, is 

 associated with a form of muscular atrophy; who has 

 contributed to many branches of medicine but especially 

 to the study of tuberculosis, pointing out, among the 

 earliest, the almost constant relation of tuberculosis to 

 the so-called idiopathic sero-fibrinous pleurisy. Dean 

 today of the Medical Faculty, he is still active in his 

 clinic for tuberculosis at the Hopital Laennec. 



DEJERINE, professor at the Faculty, one of the most 

 distinguished of living neurologists, author of a monumental 

 anatomy of the nervous system and (with ANDRE- 

 THOMAS) of the volume on diseases of the spinal cord 

 in the "Nouveau Traite de medecine et de therapeutique " 

 (1909); a brilliant clinician whose exercises at the Sal- 

 petriere are most stimulating. 1 



Pierre MARIE, professor at the Faculty, who first 

 described the disease Acromegaly and pointed out its 



1 [His death, since this chapter went to press, is chronicled with 

 deepest regret. AUTHOR.] 



