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brethren" who, either in good faith or other- 

 wise, combatted the doctrine of microbes, and 

 he had to sustain some hard contests against 

 the doubting Peters of the Academy of Medi- 

 cine. On the other hand, the German school, 

 with Dr. Koch at its head, disputed his discov- 

 eries, going so far as to deny wholly the value 

 of his observations. But he was so certain of 

 the positive results he had obtained that he 

 sent his pupil Thuillier as a delegate to Ger- 

 many, with virulent cultures of anthrax, as well 

 as attenuated viruses, thus carrying his experi- 

 ments into the territory of the enemy. 



He suffered from such ill will, and from all 

 these quarrels, ceaselessly renewed ; his resent- 

 ment, however, was softened by the admiration 

 he received from the great majority of scien- 

 tists. The Academy of Sciences having taken 

 the initiative, the learned societies subscribed 

 towards a medal to be presented to him, con- 

 taining his profile modeled by Alphee Dubois, 

 with this inscription : "To Louis Pasteur, from 

 his colleagues, his friends and his admirers." 



