But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particles. Upon this principle I have based a practice.

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish.

The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.