Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

care of the body—the temple of the Holy Spirit.
From many and varied sources, during the last
half century, a flood of light has been thrown upon
this important theme. From out the mind of the
renowned Pasteur came shafts of light of brilliant
and penetrating power on matters relating to
health and disease. From him the world received
its knowledge of bacteria, the causative factors of
so many diseases. From Louis Pasteur came the
cure that conquered anthrax, that devastating
sickness afflicting both man and beast. He it was
whose unremitting toil culminated in the discovery
of a cure for hydrophobia, one of the most dread
diseases of all the ages.
Lord Lister, by applying the principles of
Pasteur to the operating room, made surgery safe
for mankind. His genius transformed hospitals
from being shambles of horror and gangrene to
places of comfort and cure. He demonstrated that
pus in surgical wounds is unnecessary, and
reduced surgical mortality to a relatively
insignificant figure.
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