I Have The Faith Of A Breton

Since The Most Ancient Times, All Men, And Particularly Those Who Endeavored In The Practice Of Medicine, Have Brought Closer Together Two Natural Phenomena Of Capital Importance: Illness Or Fever And Fermentation.

It Is Surmounting Difficulties That Makes Heroes.

If It Is A Terrifying Thought That Life Is At The Mercy Of The Multiplication Of These Minute Bodies [microbes], It Is A Consoling Hope That Science Will Not Always Remain Powerless Before Such Enemies.

Virulence Appears In A New Light Which Cannot But Be Alarming To Humanity; Unless Nature, In Her Evolution Down The Ages (an Evolution Which, As We Now Know, Has Been Going On For Millions, Nay, Hundreds Of Millions Of Years), Has Finally Exhausted All The Possibilities Of Producing Virulent Or Contagious Diseases - Which Does Not Seem Very Likely.

Chance Favors The Prepared Mind.