[The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibanez]@TWC D-Link bookThe Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse CHAPTER V 40/99
A Herr Professor discovers the cure of tuberculosis, and the tubercular keep on dying as before.
Another labels with a number the invincible remedy for the most unconfessable of diseases, and the genital scourge continues afflicting the world.
And all these errors were representing great fortunes, each saving panacea bringing into existence an industrial corporation selling its products at high prices--as though suffering were a privilege of the rich.
How different from the bluff Pasteur and other clever men of the inferior races who have given their discoveries to the world without stooping to form monopolies! "German science," continued Tchernoff, "has given much to humanity, I admit that; but the science of other nations has done as much.
Only a nation puffed up with conceit could imagine that it has done everything for civilization, and the others nothing.
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