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does not stop at saving the lives of animals, and 

 profiting or pleasing their owners. It is doing 

 more than that : it is bringing veterinary practice 

 into union with medical and surgical practice. 

 Every year, in this and other countries, the veter- 

 inary art is becoming more scientific, less of a craft, 

 and more of a learned profession. Thirty years ago, 

 this levelling up of the study of animal diseases to 

 the study of human diseases was not possible, was 

 hardly imaginable: and it is Pasteur, more than 

 anyone else, who made it possible. 



But the saving of the lives of animals is a small 

 matter, compared to the gifts which come through 

 him to man for the service, not of animals, but of 

 man. In the present researches into human infec- 

 tive diseases, and in the present methods of dealing 

 with them, where does he leave off? All the world 

 over, wherever the science and art of medicine and 

 surgery are, there his influence is, and his name is 

 held in honour. Vivit, regnat, imperat. For he 

 did more than make discoveries ; he discovered how 

 to make them. 



That is why all nations are grateful to him. 

 Take once more this one fact, that by the pursuit of 

 his methods yellow fever has been stamped out, and 

 the Panama Canal has been opened. In the whole 

 history of science, there is no greater achievement. 

 And what moves us, when we read of the work, is 



