VII 



SOME MEDICAL LABORATORIES AND MEDICAL 

 PROBLEMS 



THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE 



THE national egotism that characterizes the French 

 mind is not without its compensations. It leads, 

 for example, to the tangible recognition of the merits of 

 the great men of the nation and to the promulgation 

 of their names in many public ways. Thus it would 

 be hard to mention a truly distinguished Frenchman 

 of the older generations whose name has not been 

 given to a street in Paris. Of the men of science thus 

 honored, one recalls off-hand the names of Buflon, 

 Cuvier, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Pinel, Esquirol, La- 

 marck, Laplace, Lavoisier, Arago, Claude Bernard, 

 Broca indeed, one could readily extend the list to 

 tiresome dimensions. Moreover, it is a list that is 

 periodically increased by the addition of new names, 

 as occasion offers, for the Parisian authorities never 

 hesitate to rechristen a street or a portion of a street, 

 regardless of former associations. 



One of the most recent additions to this roll of fame 

 is the name of Pasteur. The boulevard that bears that 

 famous name is situated in a somewhat out-of-the-way 

 corner of the city, though to reach it one has but to 

 traverse the relatively short course of the Avenue de 



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