The New Spirit . seases produced in beast and man. Later hetook up the study of scientific methods of preventing and curing diseases. Viewed fromany standpoint, his researches are of the profoundest importance. He introduced theexperimental method and used it with telling effect upon bacteria and allied micro-organisms. From an obscure position interesting only to the professional biologist,Pasteur raised these micro-organisms to a place of greatest interest on account of theirsignificance in the production of changes of greatest importance to man. Pasteurs name will always be felt in the doma
The New Spirit . seases produced in beast and man. Later hetook up the study of scientific methods of preventing and curing diseases. Viewed fromany standpoint, his researches are of the profoundest importance. He introduced theexperimental method and used it with telling effect upon bacteria and allied micro-organisms. From an obscure position interesting only to the professional biologist,Pasteur raised these micro-organisms to a place of greatest interest on account of theirsignificance in the production of changes of greatest importance to man. Pasteurs name will always be felt in the domain of preventive medicine. Andthat influence will finally verify one of his own sayings: It is within the possibility ofman to rid the earth of germs. The word Pasteruize has worked into our dictionaries from Pasteurs greatname. It is meant the process of sterilizing or ridding food or any substance of is something for a mans name to stand in the dictionary to the end of time for health. NORA STEVENS. 41. LELIA ETOILE STEVENS Clay County An Amwnt of tlje g>urunj of•Htttnn (Untmtij THERE were only three counties in the UnitedStates in 1914 where surveys were of these was in Maryland, one in Indiana,and the other in Union County Mississippi. Thiscounty was chosen because of its large per cent ofwhite people and the exceedingly small per cent ofblacks. The aim of this survey was to show the peo-ple of this county as well as of others what could bedone along the line of public health. It consisted ofa survey of the county to prevent an epidemic oftyphoid fever, and to show how typhoid fever couldbe experts were sent down from Washington to carry on the county health officer worked with them. The President of the Mississippi NormalCollege became very much interested in the work, so he decided to send the collegephysician there to get new ideas on the subject, that she might put them into practiceat the college. In this survey the
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