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Health service. This marks the bicentennial of the service founded in 1798. [old time music] and now, let us go back 300 years to london. In a famous diary, we read of a catastrophe that was typical of then and of the preceding ages, an epidemic of plague that have been raging in europe broke out with a fearful frenzy in englands capital in 1665. Hundreds fell ill every day. Many of them died. People were stricken on the streets. Everyone fled from the victims for fear of the dread disease. But, by far the most horrible element of the tragedy was the mystery of its origins. No one knew what or who carried the plague. The solution finally came by way of this odd contraption. Does anyone know what this is . It looks like a can opener. [laughter] no, it is not a can opener. It is the first microscope. It may look like a toy to us but its important to human life is tremendous. It is the connecting link between our science and the distant past, when the world of germs was unknown to man. In
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