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is acknowledged to be accurate and true. He 
exercised great influence in the kingdom of 
Bavaria and especially in the town of Munich. 
He found the soldiers indolent and he put them 
to work upon the land, thereby increasing the 
food supply. He studied the principles of 
stoves so that cooking might be done in the 
most economical manner. In 1790 he caused 
the soldiers to arrest within one week 2,600 
beggars and vagabonds, who were also poten- 
tial thieves, and put them to work, directing 
that it all be done in a kindly manner. This 
large number of indigents came from a total 
population of 60,000. Soup kitchens were pro- 
vided and a soup made of bones and blood, the 
cheapest slaughter-house materials, was fur- 
nished for these workers. In this way he com- 
pletely abolished poverty. The beautifully 
planned English Garden in Munich is another 
evidence of Count Rumford’s capacity. This 
is a historical example of a distinguished scien- 
tific man in complete charge of a government. 
Tt finds a modern counterpart in the control 
of the Panama Canal Zone by General Gorgas. 
The marvelous growth of German science 
since 1850 has been the admiration of the 
world. To the severely critical it may possibly 
seem to have passed through two stages; a first 
stage, that of the study of science for the love 
of finding out the truth, and a second stage, the 
study of science, because, as a German pro- 
fessor once wrote me, “pride in a scientific 
reputation as an incentive to ambition is not 
to be underestimated.” One may also point 
out that no other nation more completely 
adopted the doctrines of Darwin, and that 
Koch continued the brilliant lead of Pasteur. 
The other day, when speaking to my students 
of the work of Otto Neubauer upon the 
method of the deamination of amino-acids 
within the body, I called attention to the fact 
that this fine piece of work was not done in a 
chemical nor yet in a physiological institute 
but in the laboratory of the second medical 
clinie of Friedrich Miiller in the town of 
Munich; that though we could celebrate with 
joy our victories over that vicious symposium 
of evil known as Prussian militarism, the lead- 
ers of which in cowardly manner have slunk 
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out of harm’s way, yet it would be unworthy of 
us if we could not continue to celebrate Ger- 
man triumphs of peaceful, scientific achieve- 
ment. 
_ About ten years ago I was in Berlin and 
heard bitter complaint that there was no money 
for new hospital buildings, no money for new 
laboratories, and all this because the Kaiser 
must have money for his new toys, battleships 
which were to be constructed. To-day, where 
are those battleships? Gone. Gone, also, the 
Kaiser. But the Charité Hospital in Berlin, 
with all that it has stood for in the history of 
medicine, still stands. Its past, at least, will 
endure and we have no right to wish anything 
for it but an equally brilliant future. 
For the moment let us remember Longfel- 
low’s poem on Nuremburg: 
Vanished is the ancient splendor, and before my 
dreamy eye 
Wave these mingled shapes and figures, like a 
faded tapestry. 
Not thy Councils, not thy Kaisers, win for thee the 
world’s regard; 
But thy painter, Albrecht Diirer, and Hans Sachs 
thy cobbler-bard. 
There is only one thing that would be more 
stupid than our failure to recognize the im- 
portance of German scientific achievement and 
that would be that the Germans, having suf- 
fered disastrous and fitting punishment for the 
evil of their ways, should decide to exclude the 
thoughts and ideas, whether of morals, of art 
or of science, of those with whom they had 
lately been at war. 
In the field of hospital nursing American 
institutions have long been preeminent. As a 
nation we have developed the quality of mercy 
to a high degree. This quality of mercy has 
been distinctly lacking in both the German 
character as well as in the administration of 
very many of their hospitals. But this quality 
of mercy is not the whole equipment of a mod- 
ern physician, else the trained nurse or the 
Christian Science reader would be all-sufficient 
for assuaging the physical woes of mankind. 
Very much more than this is demanded of the 
physician, who has to interpret the derange- 
ments of the human body and attempt a recon- 
