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IT must be a great pleasure and a special honour o^ for all of us to meet here personally on British soil for a scientific purpose, in order to take part in the great work which will be of benefit to the whole world. Are we not here in a country that has produced two men who must be considered among the greatest men of all times, Jenner and Lord Lister? Like a star in the darkness of his age, Jenner's great achievement, which broke the power of such an awful public plague as smallpox, still shines with peerless splendour. And on the occasion of the last congress which was held here we gathered with wondering admiration round Lord Lister, who through his introduction of antiseptics brought about a revolution in surgery which stands alone in the history of medicine. Here in England the first example of a modern Institute for Tropical Diseases, which is a model for all other institutes of this kind, was created, under the direction of Sir Patrick Manson. Through Ross's excellent work, Laveran's discovery of the causes of malaria was so far advanced that entirely new lines were opened up for the hygienic struggle against tropical and subtropical diseases.
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Chemio-Therapy 1 . Nature 91, 620–626 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091620a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/091620a0