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mav have been certain failures, a great number of lives have 

 been saved which otherwise would inevitably have been lost. 



This investigation brought Pasteur's active experimental 

 work to a conclusion, though he was in constant attendance 

 at the laboratories in the Rue Dutot or in those connected 

 with the Stables at Garches, situated in the Park of the 

 Old Chateau de Ville Neuve l'Etang, where the work on 

 hydrophobia and diphtheria is carried on, guiding, advis- 

 ino- directing and watching with keen interest the work 

 of his pupils, encouraging them to overcome difficulties 

 and rejoicing with them in their successes. He thus 

 practically died in harness, for it was at Garches after 

 about three weeks' severe illness — he had been ailing for 

 some time — that he died on the 29th of September. 



Pasteur married the daughter of M. Laurent, the Rector of 

 the Strasburg Academy. His son, Jean Baptiste, is in the 

 Diplomatic Service, and his only surviving daughter, Madame 

 Valery-Radot, is the wife of the biographer of the great man. 



It is difficult to sum up in few words the character 

 of such a man. Those who have come in contact 

 with him were always struck by his energy, direct- 

 ness and simplicity ; those who have followed his work, 

 by his industry, his pertinacity, his clear-sightedness, 

 his wonderful powers both of experiment and of deduc- 

 tion, and by that power of induction which amongst 

 scientific men is found only in those who may lay claim 

 to genius. When, on the occasion of the celebration of his 

 seventieth birthday, Pasteur's admirers and disciples, col- 

 lected from almost all civilised nations, met to do him honour, 

 Sir Joseph Lister, presenting what might be called an Inter- 

 national Gold Medal, spoke to the following effect, he was 

 but giving utterance to what every man sitting in the Sor- 

 bonne felt most sincerely. He said : " There is certainly 

 not in the whole world a single person to whom medical 

 science is more indebted than to you. Your researches on 

 fermentation have thrown a flood of light which has illu- 

 minated the gloomy shades of surgery, and changed the 

 treatment of wounds from a matter of doubtful, and too 

 often disastrous, empiricism into a scientific art, certain and 



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