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disastrous empirical affair into a sure beneficent scientific art. 

 Thanks to you, surgery has undergone a complete revolution which 

 has robbed it of its terrors, and has enlarged almost without limit 

 its efficacious power. Medicine owes not less than surgery to your 

 profound and philosophical studies. You have lifted the veil which 

 had covered infectious diseases during the centuries; you have dis* 

 covered and demonstrated their microbial nature. Thanks to your 

 initiative and, in many cases, to your own special work, there are 

 already a large number of these pernicious maladies of which we 

 now know the causes. 



Then Pasteur rose and spoke quietly and feelingly of 

 his hope that science would save men from their bodily 

 ills; that men will be more useful when free from dis- 

 ease. Then turning to the delegates he said: 



And you, delegates from other nations, bring me the deepest joy 

 that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and 

 Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will 

 unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong 

 to those who will have done most for suffering humanity. 



The foundations of the science which may remove 

 from man all his bodily ills if only he will turn his mind 

 to them long enough, with sufficient patience and un- 

 selfishness that is the achievement of Louis Pasteur. 

 Human life is now much lengthened because of the work 

 of Pasteur, by the few others of hi s time, and by the many 

 others since who have been stimulated and whose work 

 has been made possible by him. Those who know and 

 do what modern health science teaches are the ones 

 whose lives are lengthened. It is they who are of most 

 worth to the world. A man at forty has just learned 

 how to work. To add ten or fifteen or twenty years to 

 his life saves to the world a man who is equipped and 

 ready. His added years may double his service to the 



