| Show ee TA 0 his N wool pik id ro 4 now 0 I 1 two contrary laws stand today opposed one on a law of 0 blood and death which inventing daily new means of cl combat ob obliges I 1 it ea the nations to be eer prepared for or battle tile the other a law of peace of labor of sili aal allon atlon which strives to deliver man from the scourges urges 11 aich assail him one looks only or violent 11 conquest the other for or tile he relief of 0 sun ering humanity the one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual the other places a single human lire life above all victories the law of which we are th the e In instruments strunk e rate e essays even in the midst of carnage to heal the wounds caused ud by the he law of war ar louis pasteur at dedication of f pasteur in ID paris No november ember 14 ISA by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN r 72 7 2 HE name of louis pasteur Is enrolled among the immortals the international observance of the centenary centenari of ills his birth proves tills this though the of ills his birth was december 27 i 1 learned social and commercial societies organizations and eions alons are still tribute to ills his services to mankind all the lie world to Is paying homage to him as one of the greatest p eanest benefactors of the bunian race A glance nt at the proceedings of two american memorial inee tings s will show how bow widespread spread the appreciation at the philadelphia meeting jules Jus josserand the french amba ambassador Bador puke of pasteur as tile greatest of the immortals of france president harding sent this the wonderful advance of medicine and surgery are the direct results of f Past eurs life and work already man infectious diseases have been conquered and as a result the length ot of human life lias has increased america has been among the first nations tu to apply Past eurs work to practical use tte tile building of the panama canal was made possible by knowledge of thi the terms germs of yellow trier finer fortner former president Wil wilsons sons message bald aid in part 1 I CIP car see that it Is ills Past Wast eurs immortal Immor lal distinction that te be not only broadened the thought tins enlightened the practice of the gre great it profession lr ir tile lie treatment or of certain diseases hilt but also erected barriers against all disease pasteur was hulled billic d its as one of the greatest benefactors of the human race in oil all history by chief justice taft dr Et colenne letine burnett director of the pasteur institute sit at tunis africa rica wits was a special representative of the french government the program of a meeting in denver denter wits was under the auspices of the Ainer american lelin Clien chemical lical society Colura dit division the lie medical society of hie lie city and courty of if Dc denver liver tile state and aid Nat natural urail history sod ety the colorado scientific society and ill the denver philosophical soe baiely lety la pasteur bleur wave cave to the horld perhaps the il lit in the realms ot research eer ninde by bay ay one soon iaan according to tile sli six eminent alit Bi ills work ork wits was in Talu ahle not dot only in and of itself hut but f the file width of its application to other problems because of its to further investigation alons along lew w lilies mhd and because tit of its bell beliet lit to the he welfare of humanity sneah oft W asserted T to 0 speakers were ti M T V Ber berthlot Berth lor of who described the place which pasteur holds in the hearts of 0 ills countrymen dr W D nagle angle lead head of the department of chemistry and vice chancellor of the Un hersity of denver deliver who outlined the lie contribution of the french scientist to the study of chemistry and the effects of tills this contribution in modern industry prot T D L A cockerell of the department part ment of zoology university of colorado who spoke on the lie subject pasteur Tast cur a practical biologist dr carroll E edson eminent denver physician who told of the influence of Past eurs researches in the field belil of medicine dr horace G wetherill who compared the uncertainties of surgery GO CO years ago with the sureness of the lie science today since fance the hie introduction tro of sanitation sanat ailon brought through Past eurs demonstrations of tile serin gerin theory and rev william OK yin ark pastor caistor of st leos catholic church wlm who describes de pasteur not as a scientist but as a man louis pasteur was born at dole in the jura mountains the son of a tanner ile he got a school and college education and entered the normal school of paris where lie chose chemistry lien for a career ills public career began at dijon in 1848 lit in 1849 18 au lip lie was transferred to strasbourg in I 1 1855 he went to falle file as dean ceass of tile ahr faculty of science in 1857 1837 he was appointed director of scientific studies at the acol normale of paris life his studies in fermentation revolutionized the wine industry of france und aind the procedure now universally knon ob cs pasteurization was later inter ap H plied piled to countless other articles of consumption lie he saved the silk industry of france by discovering a cure for the silkworm disease after lie ile was sixty and after an ftp stroke which crippled him lie experimented with anthrax and chicken cholera and formulated the principles principal pl of immunization front from disease by Intro introducing ducin into hie file system a u serum of attenuated irus ills his fame faine became upon ills discovery lisci nery of a method of ing rubles in IM in the pasteur institute bull built by popular contri contribution and endowed for future usefulness was finished aind in dedicated ans leur lived seven years more loved and revered by coworkers vor kers and disciples and by every one A pinprick was waa a door open to death wrote a famous surgeon of Past eurs latter later years that open door widened before tile alie sinal smallest lest operation the lancing of an abscess or it n whitlow sometimes told such buell a serious consequence that surgeons hesitated before the slightest use of tile lie bla big lots toury ry it wits was much worse alien lien a ma jor surgical oper riton wits was net necessary es sary thou thourl gl through the fronir of tile immediate success ct cl the mosi lost dilli cult operation was wa now I 1 by the progress of skill and the precious discovery of anesthesia tit the patient ills his will and BUS pen deil awoke from the most terrible operations us its from a dream but at that hint very moment when the surgeons art uns mas emboldened by being able to disregard pain it was aus arrested disconcerted and terrified by the fatal failures which supervened after almost every operation the alie words gangrene erysipelas cainia purulent infection were bywords in those days pasteur was the precursor of lister the noted british surgeon the latter wrote to him film front from edinburgh in 1874 1 I do not know whether the records of british surgery eker eer meet lour eye if to you will have seen from time to time notices of the antiseptic ti system of treatment which I 1 have been laboring for the past nine years to bring to perfection allow tile me to tale take this opportunity to tender you my most cordial thanks fr for hav hig hy by our brilliant researches dem deal to tile me the truth of tile the germ theory of putrefaction find and thus furnished me with the principle upon vi lach alone the antiseptic system cull can be carried out should you sit t tiny time isit edinburgh it would I 1 he bileve give el jou i sincere gratification U see nt lit our hospital how largely mankind Is being benefited hy by y your ur labors labom ai M pasteur did visit eilan burgh unit ami was as given n remarkable reception b by v tile the scientific world orld gitlit bcd there nt at the tercentenary Past eurs popular fame Is largely due to his treatment of rubles rabies it was one of the most sig big ant and important discoveries lo in the whole history of medicine its importance lies ills even more than in the number of lives to in its sali significance it was the lie second dis dl covery of a ineth lil for the llie prevention of tin lin infectious disease tit nf falln human belogi tile lie first abeln the di discovery of for tile prevention of smallpox the ill illi cov leov eries cries of the methods of pre preventing enting typhoid imer feer elaw rever fever and cholera came ut at a much latter later date it wig was only after exhaustive ohe re fenech n the and lo prevention reven of in animals that pasteur Ia sutured P to subject it 11 lieiman being to ills his treatment babler Is it ireine alx fuse it inflicts terrible and it proves fatal on oil the other hand only n comparatively sit mihall tall ike r T n I 1 age tit of thore bitten alti n hv roald dogs digs develop rite about tile liend head und and neck however ul of idiot invariably result in rabies july C 6 aw 11 n boy mel melster ater from als aco wits was brought hy by fils pur par pass to an Int beur fl fir r ir alicent tile ali by boy had been bailly baliti ri about the file fine fate in all hands lin nili unil und liu ha I 1 I 1 not re any 1111 v treatment the t wai wag applied und and wag wac Rucie ful |
