Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-25
DIR. BURQ AND N. PAsTEUR.

4 Rival for the Great Academic Honors.
In an "Entre Nous" column of your
last issue, says Paris letter to London
Truth, you expressed a wish to know
more about Paul Bert's copper specific
against cholera. The discovery of this
egis not only against the Indian invader,
but against smallpox, diphtheria, ty-
phOid, and scarlatina is not due to Paul
Bert, but to DR.. Burg, who for more
than 30 years has been scOtfed at bY the
rOutine-ridden Academy of Medicine. He
Is an old friend of mine, and is not only
one of the most intelligent, but one of the
most genial Frenchmen | know. And
now little benevolent gossip about the
arch enemies of the Cupric Saviour,
Burg, fortified" by his medicament.
has been since 1919, during every cholera
visitation, in the hospitals of the towns
where IL was most Virulent He faced it
at TOulOn and Marseilles. in Paris, ROuen.
London, and Eastern France. He also
faced smallpox in its worst haunts. Pas
teur only studies these maladies at a dis
lance. A little virus is brought to him i'm
a glass tube, and then he operates with it
on apes, monkeys, dogs, and guinea pigs
He breaches er cdtbedrd, and all the cow
ards who are afraid of losing their worth
less lives, and who cannot bear to think
that fair play should be the great sweet
eneT of the world and reign everywhere,
laud him as benefactOr of the human
race and stamper out Of plague and pes
thence. When contagious disease burns
itself out in place where some mitigat-
ed virus has just produced as good
an effect as LOurdes water, they cry out,
"GTeat is Pasteurr' He reminds me of
Vain-HOpe, the ferryman IN the ''Pil-
grim's Progress" who saved people the
trouble of wading through the river
which lay between the land Of Beulah
and the Celestial Kingdom. Poultry yard
cholera, Ovine carbuncle, murrain, rim
derpest, smallpox, scarlatina, and every
other curse upon dirt and gluttony are as
severe as ever, and yet the notion is
abroad that PasteuT, through his scape-
goat animals, has taken the sting out of
them all. Pasteur, who has not gone to
Marseilles to correct or to check the
theories he builds up i'm his torture house
in the Rue d'Ulm. has got himself APP
pointed French Commissioner to the
Health Congress which is to be held at
Amsterdam.
don't at all try to convey the idea
that he is hUmbug. He believes in his
theories, and has got to look upon himself
as a divinity. When his sOn-in-laW wrote
that lie Pasteurium Laudamus" (E'Mon-
ographe de PasteuT par un lgnOrant') in
one volume, the object of the praises HIM
self corrected the prOofsl Pasteur is
priest who lives by the altar. He has
25.000f. a year from the State to enable
him to pursue his researches. with lOdg-
ings, coal and lamplIght, and is soon to
have a delicious country residence at Viii
leneuve PEtang, where dogs inferno is
being created for him. His mitigated
viruses are a sOurce-and a good One-Of
income. He has married his daughter
adyantageOusly; through BrOwn-Se-
guards and Paul Berts manias for vivi-
section OUtrGHce he is on good terms
with the OppOrtunists, and owing to his
unmitigated clericalism he enjoys the
friendship of the Dukes and Counts at
the Academy. II a King starts up. he
will have access to him; II the republic
continues, he Will 90 on drawing his
25.O00f. year. His sOn-in-law the author
of the ssTe Pasteurium Laudamus") was,
a few years ago, secretary to NJ. de
Freycinet. 1t is on the cards that he may
hereafter receive royal Dukes at Albert
Gate House.