The new order of sainthood / by Henry Fairfield Osborn.

  • Henry Fairfield Osborn
Date:
1913
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Credit: The new order of sainthood / by Henry Fairfield Osborn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    parents, is one of the most beautiful episodes in human history. As recited by Radot: Pasteur was going through a suc- cession of hopes, fears, anguish, and an ardent yearning to snatch little Meister from death; he could no longer work. At nights feverish visions came to him of this child, whom he had seen playing in the garden, suffocating in the mad struggles of hydrophobia, like the dying child he had seen at the Hopital Trous- seau in 1880. Vainly his experimental genius assured him that the virus of that most terrible of diseases was about to be vanquished, that humanity was about to be delivered from this dread horror — his human tenderness was stronger than all, his accustomed ready sympathy for the sufferings and anxie- ties of others was for the nonce cen- tred in 'the dear lad/ . . .
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