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lest relief, but in some countries without even daring to 
approach them with assistance. 
What a contrast is presented by the scientific medicine of 
to-day. An “art” whic i i 
century developed into a great science based upon the results of 
experimental] investigation. To the general recognition of the 
value of this method, and to this alone, can be traced the mar- 
vellous evolution which has taken place. No department of 
medicine has remained unaffected. In none, however, has 
research been productive of greater results than in that which 
further and say that the investigations which proved beyond 
dispute the microbic origin of disease laid the foundations 
upon which the whole edifice of modern medicine has been 
built. Antiseptic surgery with all its latter day improvements, 
and Cohn. Preventive medicine was but ‘a blundering 
science,’’ until the establishment of the germ theory altered its 
Whole outlook and gave a new direction to its energies. 
small beginnings it has rapidly grown as new facts have been 
established until at the present day it rivals in importance the 
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