Here indeed some of the grandest results have been 

 achieved. Who now believes that Scrofula, the King's 

 Evil, is due to "bad water, or crude indigestible food," 

 as my ancient EncyclopEedia has it? or that the Royal 

 touch will cause the swollen glands to vanish. Koch 

 and Pasteur have altered all that, and the microscopic 

 tubercle bacillus is to-day, under the supervision of the 

 microscope, hunted and slaughtered by fresh air, Finsen 

 light, vaccines, and even the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 

 Slowly, but surely, consumption is growing less, sanitation 

 and the microscope are winning a victory over one of 

 mankind's most deadly and insidious foes. 



No longer the surgeon goes his daily round in the 

 hospital, knife in hand, letting out the laudable pus from 

 the wounds which he treated with such ineffeccual skill. 

 Pasteur, again, and Lister have shown us how carbolic 

 acid clears the microscopic field of germs, and have paved 

 the pathway with prevention which anticipates cure. 



The day is past when a compound fracture meant 

 almost certainly the loss of a limb, and an operation was 

 synonymous with a lengthy and tedious convalescence. 

 The bacteria that vitiated our dressings have been dis- 

 covered and defeated by the microscope. 



With what amazement would Ambroise Pare, the fore- 

 most military surgeon of his day (If) 80), regard the 

 surgical methods of a Japanese ambulance officer on a 

 Alanchurian battlefield. The latter might be no match 

 for the great master in either dexterity or boldness, but 

 his results, based on microscopic discovery, would astound 

 no less than they would shame so gteat a surgeon. 

 Anatomical knowledge and surgical procedure may not 

 have changed so much, but many a wounded soldier has 

 emerged from the valley of the shadow of death 

 unconscious of the thanks due to the microscope, and the 

 providence that has taught us how to fight the enemy 

 that lurks within the camp. 



