Pasteur institute's Great War Work

The next serum to be announced by the famous Pasteur Institute in Paris is one for immunisation against
dysentery—one of the scourges among the Allied troops during the last war. Under the. French Army regulations, Injections of other Pasteur Institute serums are compulsory. Now they have been adopted by the British as well as five other European armies. The Germans, so far as is known, do not use them.
The establishment where these serums have been discovered is like some monastery compared with the world of war outside.
In the quiet rooms of the Institute white-aproned doctors handle innocent looking jars containing vital serums of more importance to the Allies than many mechanical Inventions. These jars
contain enough microbes to kill the entire population of the country. Behind labels written in big letters which designate the contents—tetanus, diphtheria, or cholera the microbes are slowly turning into life-giving serums.
MILLION TUBES So greatly has the work of the Pasteur Institute increased that last year they were able to provide the army with one million tubes of triple serum against diphtheria, typhoid and tetanus, compared with only 50,000 tubes in 1914.
The Institute estimates that there are
at least twelve million people in the world who have been injected with their
serums. If the war continues for any length of time, the total win increase by nearly ten million each year.—B.U.P.
— The Institut Pasteur was founded In 1589 in honour of Louis Pasteur, founder of ehssiochemistry. father of bacteriology, and inventor of I-do-therapeutics. Pasteur was a Catholic, and Is credited with the saying " The more I know, the more nearly le ray faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all, / would have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife."