MODERN WORKERS ON THE BLOOD 



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for the Carrel-Dakin treatment of wounds during the war; 



Noguchi, the Japanese who prepared antitoxins against snake 



venom and who gave his life in May, 1928, in an attempt to conquer 



yellow fever ; Flexner, for his 



discoveries in connection 



with infantile paralysis ; and 



the Dicks, husband and wife, 



who have worked out a 



method of treatment for 



scarlet fever; and many 



others. 



Self-Testing Exercise 



Jenner first used the modern 



method of (1) against 



(2) . This disease has 



been practically wiped out 



in states where (3) is 



(4) by law. Louis 



Pasteur was the first 



(5). He laid the foundation 



for all modern work in 



(6) (7), a fellow worker with Pasteur, prepared the 



(8) against (9). Lister first used (10) in 



surgery. Koch discovered the (11) which causes tuberculosis. 



Dr. Hideyo Noguchi. 



PROBLEM III. WHAT ARE SOME GREAT NAMES IN THE 

 STUDY OF PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT? 



Charles Darwin. Another important line of biological investi- 

 gation is the study of the progressive development of life on the 

 earth. The idea of evolution was known to the Greek philosophers 

 and we now call Aristotle the father of the idea of evolution. In 

 the early part of the nineteenth century the name of a French 

 naturalist stands out as he advanced a theory of descent in which 

 the environment played a considerable part. But the name of 

 Darwin is most indelibly associated with modern thought on pro- 

 gressive development. 



