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came immune to hydrophobia. From this time hydrophobia victims 

 flocked to Pasteur from all over the world. 



A bronze btatue representing the struggles of Jupille stands in 

 front of the famous Pasteur institute in Paris. 



This treatment, which has been in use practically unchanged 

 from the way Pasteur announced it to the world, has reduced the 

 mortality from hydrophobia to about one-half of one per cent. 



Pasteur was devoted to his family, enjoying the closest sym- 

 pathy and assistance of his wife and daughter in his great dis- 

 coveries. He also had great respect for his father. In the dedica- 

 tion of one of his books to him, he said in part : "The longer I live 

 the better do I understand the kindness of thy heart and the 

 superiority of thy judgment." Fie took a kindly interest in his 

 hydrophobia patients and wrote to them often giving them good 

 advice after they had been discharged. 



During his life Pasteur was guided by the purest and highest 

 of ideals in science, virtue and charity. He was a deeply religious 

 man. He once said : "The idea of God is a form of the idea of the 

 Infinite. As long as the mystery of the Infinite weighs on human 

 thought, temples will be erected for the worship of the Infinite, 

 whether God is called Brahma, Allah, Jehovah or Jesus; and on 

 the pavement of those temples men will be seen kneeling, prostrated, 

 annihilated in the thought of the Infinite." 



In 1892 an international jubilee was held in Paris to celebrate 

 this man's 70th birthday. Lord Lister, the famous EngHsh surgeon, 

 said at this meeting: "Trub^ there does not exist in the entire 

 world any individual to whom the medical sciences owe more than 

 they do to you. Your researches on fermentation have thrown a 

 powerful beam, which has lightened the baleful darkness of surgery, 

 and has transformed the treatment of wounds from a matter of 

 uncertain and too often disastrous empiricisim into a scientific art 

 of sure beneficence. Thanks to you, surgery has undergone a 

 complete revolution, which has deprived it of its terrors and has 

 extended almost without limit its efficacious power." 



At the same meeting Tjaadall said : "We have been scourged 

 ])y invisible throngs, attacked from impenetratable ambuscades, and 

 it is only today that the light of science is being let in upon the 

 murderous domains of our foes." "The master mind of Pasteur 

 has dominated the realm of bacteriology since 1860." "His epoch- 

 making discoveries were largely due to his intuitive vision, his 

 skill in device and in the adoption of means to ends, his prodigious 

 industry, and the enthusiasm and love with which he inspired his 

 associates." 



