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more comprehensive treatment of disease. This is 

 abimdantly proved by the nature and range of the in- 

 vestigations Avhich he himself undertook and stimuUited 

 others to take up, and also by the type of investigators 

 which he attracted to Paris. It mattered not whether 

 the disease to be investigated was confined to m^m or 

 to animals. 



He demonstrated that equally brilliant, equally use- 

 ful and beneficial results would accrue from the study 

 of either. The investigators, drawn from all parts of 

 the Avorld with whom he surrounded himself, displayed 

 the same comprehensive spirit in the treatment of their 

 special lines of research ; this is notably seen, for example, 

 in INJetchnikofFs handling of the subject of inflamma- 

 tion and infection. Nor were the researches of the 

 great Institute associated with his name only intended 

 for his countrymen, for when he had discovered the 

 cure of Rabies, to Paris repaired the afflicted of all 

 nations in order to be subjected to his treatment. Then 

 there came the period when other countries established 

 similar Institutes of their own, in order that the same 

 spirit of inv^estigation, with the same beneficial results, 

 might be planted in their midst. 



Moreo\'er Pasteur had always at hand trained men 

 ready to proceed to investigate on tlie spot diseases 

 which afflicted tropical countries. His pupils spread 

 far afield, and, fired with the enthusiasm and spirit of 

 their master, they were not slow in reaping a rich 

 liarvest in a hitherto almost unknown field of research. 

 Thus, we find Laveran ^vorking at ISIalaria in North 

 Africa ; Yersin with Plague in the Far East, followed 



