312 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



The great French scientist, Louis Pasteur, the father of modern 

 bacteriology, to whom preventive medicine is perhaps more in- 

 debted than to any other man, set before his pupils and disciples 

 an ideal to strive for when he pronounced the immortal phrase 

 which has now become classic: " II est dans le pouvoir de 1 'homme 

 de faire disparaitre toutes les maladies parasitaires du monde. "* 



May our country be privileged under the presidency of Warren 

 G. Harding to show to the rest of mankind that we are in earnest 

 in our efforts to realize this goal, as far as it is humanly possible, 

 by combating all infectious and contagious diseases and their ac- 

 companying or causative abnormal social and economic condi- 

 tions. Thus, we shall make our country a beacon of light in the 

 onward march of civilization, by ourselves becoming spiritually, 

 morally, and physically a strong and happy nation. 



*It is in the power of man to cause all parasitic (germ) diseases to disappear 

 from the world. 



