Show 0 elf his U 6 6 S of i L n g linh M 7 two contrary laws lawa stand to day opposed one a law of blood and ideath ideath inventing dally daily new means of co combat cobat bat 0 obliges ages the nations to bo be ever Irre pared for or battle the other a law of peace p bace of labor ot of salvation which strives t rives to d deliver e liver man from tho the scourges urges which assail arsat 1 him one looks only for iVl violent conquest the other for the relief of suffering buffering humanity tho the ono would sacrifice hundreds of 0 thousands of lives to the ambition of a single ual tho the other places a single human life above all victories the law of which weare we are the instruments essays even in the ho midst of carna geto heal tile the wounds caused by the law of war louls louis pasteur at dedication of pasteur r institute in parts paris november it 11 ins I 1 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HE name of louis pasteur Is enrolled among tho the immortals the international observance of tile tho centenary of his birth proves this though tho anniversary of ills his birth was december 27 1022 1922 learned social and commercial societies organizations and associations are paying pa ying tribute to his ili services vices to td fnnnk mankind ind all tho the world ils ils paying homage to him as one of the greatest benefactors of the humen race pace A glance at tho the proceedings of two american memorial meetings will show chow how widespread the appreciation tion I 1 at the philadelphia meeting jules josserand Jus tile french ambassador spoke of pasteur as the greatest of the immortals of france president harddng sent seat this message tile tho wonderful advance of medicine and surgery ure aro the direct results of Past eurs life and work already many infectious diseases have been conquered and as a result the length of human human life hus ins increased america has been among the first nations to apply Past eurs work to practical u use se the building of the panama ennui canal was enado possible by knowledge of the germs of yellow fever former president wilsons Wll Wil sons cessn message go said bald in part 1 I cin can see that it Is his Past curs immortal distinction that ho he not only broadened the alie thought and enlightened the practice of tile tho great medical profession in if the treatment of certain diseases but bitt also erected barriers against all disease pasteur was hailed balled us one of the greatest benefactors of tho the human race in all history by chief justice taft dr etienne burnett dire director etor of tile the pasteur institute at tunis africa was a special representative of the french government the pr program of a meeting in denyer denser was under the auspices of the american chemical Chem lent society colorado division the medical society of the icicy and county of denver the state historical find and history society the colorado scientific society and the denver philosophical society pasteur gave to tile tho world perhaps I 1 tho the greatest discoveries in ili the realms ft of scientific research ever mude made by any one man according to the six eminent speakers ills work was in int valuable alu able not only in had and of itself but because because of me width of its buon to other oher problems because impetus to further investigation 41 along ong new lines and because of its ben benefit e to tile the welfare of humanity speakers ass asserted eded ti im speakers were M P bert Berth berthlot lor pt ercla who tile the VA 2 ar ag go will which ell holds in the hearts of ills his countrymen dr W D enge head of the department of chemistry und vice chancellor of the university of denver deliver who outlined the tion of tile the french scientist to ther the study of chemistry and the effects of this contribution in modern industry prof T 1 D A cockerell of the department part ment of zoology university of colorado who spoke on the subject pasteur a practical biologist dr carroll E edson eminent denver phy clelan who told of tile the influence of Past eurs researches in the field of medicine dr horace G Wether lil wild who compared tho the uncertainties of surgery CO 60 years ago with th tho 0 8 sureness of tile the science today since tho the introduction tro of sanitation brought about through Past eurs demonstrations of the gern germs theory and rev kev william oryan pastor of st leos catholic church who pasteur not as a 0 scientist but as a man louis pasteur was born at dole in the jura mountains the son of a tanner he got a school and college education and entered the normal school of paris where lie he chose chemistry for a career his public career began at dijon in 1848 in 1840 ho be wits was transferred to strasbourg in 1855 lie went to lille as dean of tho the faculty of science in 1857 lie ho was appointed director of scientific studies at the acol normale of paris his ails studies in fermentation forment atlon revolutionized the wine industry of 0 prance france and the tha procedure now universally known as pasteurization was later applied to countless other articles of consumption ile he saved the silk industry of france by discovering a cure for the silkworm disease after he was sixty and after an ap apoplectic stroke which crippled him lie ho experimented with anthrax and chicken cholera and formulated the principles of immunization from disease by introducing into the system a scrum of attenuated virus his fame became worldwide upon ills discovery of a method of preventing rabies in 1885 in 1888 the pasteur institute built by popular contribution and endowed for future usefulness was finished and dedicated pasteur lived seven years more inore loved find and revered by coworkers und find and by everyone A pinprick was a door open to death wrote a famous surd surgeon eo n of Past eurs later years that open olien door widened before the smallest operation the lancing of an abscess or n whitlow sometimes had bad such a n serious consequence that surg surgeons hesitated before ehg slightest use of the lie bistoury it was much worse when a 11 major surgical operation was necess necessary tiry though through the irony of ti lings the immediate success of the most operation was waa now guaranteed by tho the of sk skill illand and the precious discovery of anesthesia the patient ills his will consciousness suspended invoke awoke from thy most terrible operations us fig from a dream but bu t it at that very moment walen w ren the surgeons art was emboldened by being able to disregard pain it was arrested disconcerted and terrified by tile the fatal failures which supervened after almost every operation the vioris gangrene erysipelas neati cumla purulent infection were bywords in those days pasteur wits was the precursor pe cursor of lister Llster tile the noted british surgeon the latter wrote to ili him in from edinburgh in 1874 1 I do not know whether the records of british surgery ever meet your eye if so you will have seen from time to time notices of the antiseptic ti system of treatment which I 1 have been bean laboring for the past nine years yeara to io bring to perfection allow me to take this opportunity to tender you my most cordial thanks for having by your brilliant reseat researches clies dent demonstrated to me the truth of bf the germ gernt theor theory y of putrefaction and thus furnished roe me with the pOn ciple upon which alone the antiseptic system can be curried out should you nt at any time visit edinburgh it would I 1 be lieve 11 eve give you sincere gratification to ses see nt at our hospital how largely man kind Is being benefited by your labors 51 pasteur did visit edinburgh and was given a remark remarkable remarkably ablo recep reception tle n by the scientific world gathered there thera at tile the tercentenary Past eurs popular fame Is largely due to his successful treatment of rabies it was one of the most significant ant and important discoveries in the whole history of medicine it ita importance lies iles oven even more than in tile tho number of lives saved in its scientific significance it was tho the second discovery of n method for tile tho specific prevention of an Infect infectious loun disease affecting human beings the first being tile the discovery of vaccination for tho prevention of smallpox the discoveries of the methods of preventing ty libold fever diphtheria yellow fever and cholera came at a much later date it waa only after exhaustive researches in the causation and prevention of rabies in animals that pasteur ventured to subject a human being to ills his treatment rabies Is a dread d dla is ease cape it ingless indicts terrible sufferings suffering and it if invariably ably proves fatal on tile 0 other i I 1 le r hand only a comparatively small percentage of those bitten by rabla rabid dogg dog s I 1 develop rabies bites about tile the h head end and neck lieck however almost invariably result in rubles rabies july 0 1330 a boy joseph moister melster front from aislee was brought by hla his par ants to pasteur for trent treatment ment the boy lind had been badly bitten about the ace find and hands blinds and had not received any treatment the treatment wv wax applied and was waa successful |