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London that I have made known to you the Taccination of 

 a disease more terrible perhaps for domestic animals than is 

 small-pox for man. I have given to the word vaccination an 

 extension which I nope Science will consecrate as a homage 

 to the merit and immense services rendered by your Jenner, 

 one of England's greatest men. It is a great happiness to me 

 to glorify that immortal name on the very soil of the noble and 

 hospitable city of London!" 



''Pasteur was the greatest success of the Congress/* wrote 

 the correspondent of the Journal des Dehats, Dr. Daremberg, 

 glad as a Frenchman and as a physician to hear the unanimous 

 hurrahs which greeted the delegate of France. "When M. 

 Pasteur spoke, when his name was mentioned, a thunder of 

 applause rose from all benches, from all nations. An indefatig- 

 able worker, a sagacious seeker, a precise and brilliant experi- 

 mentalist, an implacable logician, and an enthusiastic apostle, 

 he has produced an invincible effect on every mind. ' ^ 



The English people, who chiefly look in a great man for 

 power of initiative and strength of character, shared this 

 admiration. One group only, alone in darkness, away from 

 the Congress, was hostile to the general movement and was 

 looking for an opportunity for direct or indirect revenge ; it was 

 the group of anti-vaccinators and anti-vivisectionists. The 

 influence of the latter was great enough in England to prevent 

 experimentation on animals. At a general meeting of the 

 Congress, Virchow, the German scientist, spoke on the use of 

 experimenting in pathology. 



Already at a preceding Congress held in Amsterdam, Virchow 

 had said amid the applause of the Assembly: ''Those who 

 attack vivisection have not the faintest idea of Science, and 

 even less of the importance and utility of vivisection for the 

 progress of medicine." But to this just argument, the interna- 

 tional leagues for the protection of animals — very powerful, 

 like ever3l:hing that is founded on a sentiment which may be 

 exalted — had answered by combative phrases. The physio- 

 logical laboratories were compared to chambers of torture. 

 It seemed as if, through caprice or cruelty, quite uselessly at 

 any rate, this and that man of science had the unique desire 

 of inflicting on bound animals, secured on a board, sufferings 

 of which death was the only limit. It is easy to excite pity 

 towards animals; an audience is conquered as soon as dogs 

 are mentioned. Which of us, whether a cherished child, a 



