Pasteur exhibition : Science Museum, South Kensington : 9th April - 26th May 1947.

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1947
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Credit: Pasteur exhibition : Science Museum, South Kensington : 9th April - 26th May 1947. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the influence of the new doctrine is concerned I have been struck, not simply by its progress, but by its triumph. I should be guilty of ingratitude and of false modesty if I mis-prized your sentiments by failing to give to the welcome I have received from you, and from the British people, the significance of a homage to my work during the past twenty-five years on the nature of fermentations, work from which have derived the principles and methods of ‘ ‘ microbie”, if I may use this expres- sion. In your warm welcome I have re-lived the keen sense of reward which came to me when your great surgeon. Lister, stated that my paper of 1857, on lactic fermentation, had been the starting point of his elaboration of his priceless surgical methods.” Pasteur’s lecture was devoted to the theme of vaccination against chicken cholera and against anthrax. “A general principle,” he said, “whose fertility inspires me with bound- less confidence. ” “ Will you allow me, ’ ’ he said, in conclusion, “before I end, to express to you the deep joy that I feel in thinking that it is as a member of an international medical congress held in England that I have just given you the news of vaccination against anthrax, a disease which is perhaps even more terrible for domestic animals than small-pox for man. “I have given to the expression ‘vaccination’ an extension which I hope will be consecrated by science as a homage to the merit and to the vital contribution of one of the greatest of Englishmen, your Jenner. How happy I am to be able to pay tribute to his immortal name on the very §oil of this noble and hospitable city of London! ’ ’ * ♦ * ♦ Nearly three years later, in April 1884, the University of
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