. Glimpses of medical Europe. times more than I thought I should havepaid. Therefore I arrived at the gate of theInstitute as mad as the collection of dogsthat were howling in the little building at theright of the entrance. As to buildings, the Pasteur Institutiondoes not impress one greatly. It is the thoughtof what one man can do; the thought of thehundreds of research institutions that havebeen erected in every civilized country justbecause Louis Pasteur lived and worked, thatmakes you take off your hat as you go up thesteps of the old Institut Bacteriologique. Inside there is nothing part
. Glimpses of medical Europe. times more than I thought I should havepaid. Therefore I arrived at the gate of theInstitute as mad as the collection of dogsthat were howling in the little building at theright of the entrance. As to buildings, the Pasteur Institutiondoes not impress one greatly. It is the thoughtof what one man can do; the thought of thehundreds of research institutions that havebeen erected in every civilized country justbecause Louis Pasteur lived and worked, thatmakes you take off your hat as you go up thesteps of the old Institut Bacteriologique. Inside there is nothing particularly are a number of large rooms, in some 165 MEDICAL EUROPE of which men may be seen at a desk before amicroscope, or examining a test-tube. Thereis a Ubrary in which you may see some onequietly studying one of the volumes that fillthe shelves about the room. There are roomsin which rabbits and guinea-pigs, in well-keptcages, nibble at carrots and oats will be shown a tomb, and be told that. PaSTFAIR IxSTlTrTE here, in the place where he lived and worked,Louis Pasteur sleeps. Nothing about all thisto interest the Cooks tourist who is seeingEurope in thirty days, and Paris in forty-eight hours. Why, over in the right bank ofthe Seine is a much more impressive tomb,built for that Napoleon chap, grand in pro-portion to his rabid life. Moreover, there arethe crypts of the Pantheon. One can see a 16G PARIS whole bunch of sarcophagi,—Hugo, Voltaire,Rousseau, Carnot,—all in fifteen minutes, andso much time saved. But for a man whose life is wrapped up inmedical science and who feels so keenly, inthe light of the mean, insignificant little workthat he has done, what it means to be a greatman in medicine, there is no greater, higherprivilege than to pay ones respects to thehonored ashes of such a man as was Pasteur. Pasteur, a modest, simple, quiet little manwho, I am quite sure, must have been fre-quently insulted by his concierge and hiscpicicr,
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