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C p virtuoso, and ad.. Q the art of operat- 



ll : * Wl. 

 think t- about it, for too often, when 



i. we sign the patient's death-war- 

 ra: • . , who must have been profoundly 



: in spite of his youthf gy, M. Verneuil, ai- 



re no longer am | 96 indications, any 

 tional provisions; nothing was successful, neither abstention, 



d or radical mutilati iriy or p 



poi n of the bullets, dressing! rare or frequent, 



• dry or moist, with or without drainage; 



tried everything in vain I " During the siege of Paris, in 



eand Hotel, which had been turned u . ambulance., 



in, in despair at the sight of the death of almost every 



ho had been operated on, declared that he who should 



: qui r purulent infection would deserve a golden statue. 



]t v y at the end of the war that it occurred to Alphonse 



li rin to bis U ■ irritation was so often oonioundi d 



th another Burgeon, his namesake and opponent, Jules 



Guerin)— thai "the cause of purulent infection may perhaps 



to the germs or ferments discovered by Pasteur to 



it in the air." Alphonse Guerin saw, in malarial fe\ 



of putrefied vegetable matter, and, in purulent 

 infection, animal emanations, septic, and capable of causing 



l thought more firmly than ever," he declan 'that 



the miasms emanating from the pus of the woundi 1 were 



the ri .1 cauat of tins frightful disease, to winch I had the 



so: ■ ing the wounded succumb — whetl .r wounds 



1 with charpie and cerate or with alcoholized and 



. either renewed several times a day or impreg- 



; bandagei which remained applied to the wounds. 



In king some means of pre! these 



I bethought m the miasms, whose 



! tted, because 1 could not otherwise explain 



I purulent infection -and which were only 



:i to me by their is inf... might well be 



living of the kind which ir had seen in 



ad, from thai moment, the history of mias- 

 mal ing \< 1:". " I said, "miasms 



protect 1 d from their fatal 



' < i> ie air, as PssteUI did. 1 then con- 



