96 PASTEUR 



Godelier himself attested, and eight days after 

 his attack he dictated a note to M. Gernez, his 

 assistant, in relation to the diseases of silk- 

 worms. 



Pasteur was surrounded with the most de- 

 voted care by his family, and also by his pupils, 

 who loved him as they might have loved a 

 father who was somewhat cold, somewhat dis- 

 tant, but who hid beneath an external reserve 

 a warm heart ever ready to defend his friends. 

 Messrs. Gernex, Duclaux, Raulin, Didon and 

 Bertin took turns in watching beside him, anx- 

 iously following the successive phases of his ill- 

 ness. The whole scientific world was troubled, 

 as though facing the possibility of a great dis- 

 aster, and Napoleon III himself demanded 

 news every morning. 



Six weeks after his attack Pasteur was able 

 to rise, and entered upon his convalescence. He 

 had been affected badly by the stoppage of the 

 work upon his laboratory which had coincided 

 with the beginning of his illness, but by the 

 order of the Emperor it had been resumed, and 



