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ed as promptly as the first. But when inc

ed as promptly as the first But when the successive cultivations were allowed to re- main for some time in contact with air be- fore passing from one culture to the next an attenuated virus was obtained which made rabbits ill when introduced into their blood without causing death, and which made them proof against the deadly influence Of fresh hydrophobic virus. Pasteur next proceeded to apply the virus of hydrophobia direct to the brain substance of dogs, and he found that the virus, when introduced in this way, wss more rapidly destructive. He inferred from these experiments high de- gree of probability that there is 8 specific microbe of hydrophobia, and that it's proper cultivation field is the substance of the brain, the spinal column, and the nerves. He be- lieves that the virus is conveyed to the saliva of affected dogs by the nerves that enter the salivary glands, and he is at the present time availing himself of every possible opportuni- ty to "cultivate" an acquaintance with mad dogs in the hope that he will yet find it pos sible to "cultivate'' . softened sontageon of rabies, which will serve as protective vac- cine for the prevention of death from the disease. M. Roux, Pasteur's laboratory assis- tant, has given cautious and no doubt per fectly reliable summary of the present state of Pasteur's labors in this latest phase of his work in the following passage, taken from one of the last pages of M. Valery Radot's History" He says: At1f we examine with
 
 the brain of rabid animal and compare it with the same substance from the brain of a healthy animal, if is difficult to distinguish any difference between the two. In the rabic pulp, however, beside the granulations which are found in profusion in the healthy pulp there seem to exist little grains of extreme minuteness, almost imperceptible even with the strongest microscopes. In the cephalo- rachidic liquid, so impid in appearance, it is possible with great attention to detect sini- lar little grains. Can this be the the 1nicrobe of hydrophobia9 Some do not hesitate to affirm that it is. For ourselves, as long as the cultivation of the microbe outside the or ganism has not been affected, and hydropho- bia has not been communicated by means of artificial cultures, we shall abstain from ex- pressing definite opinion on the subject" Whatever may be the case in reference to the brain of the rabid dog there certainly can be no doubt that M. Pasteur has, at any rate, microbe organisms upon the brain Prof Tyndall has put his finger upon the great mental characteristic of Pasteur when he speaks in admiring words of his work having laid so essentially in the direction of the verifcation Of preconceived ideas 'sof in- tending the mind' upon the facts looked for: and he is not less correct in his remark that Pasteur has q marvellous and exceedingly rare skill of distilling the essences of ac- quired facts and turning them into the fore casts for further guidance in the as yet un- occupied fields of very difficult department of human research. Whatever may be thought of the great Pasteurian dogma of the supremacy of microbe organization in the kingdom of contagious disease, it is simply impossible for any reasonable mind to do otherwise than bow before the irresistible strength of the experiment at Melun. The holocaust of thestwenty sheep, by the side of the twenty five protected ones, at the farm of Pouilly -le-Fort, as a piece of scientific forecast, can only be arranged by the side of such events the discovery of Neptune under the forecasts of Leverrier and Adams. Pasteur, in almost prophetic tones, said to the assembled witnesses at Me1un, 'I will kill twenty-five sheep and I will preserve twenty-five by the self-same stroke;" and in fifty hours the work was done. In the proph- cts own work, ''the twenty-f five vaccinated animals survived and the twenty five unvac- cinated died in the grasp of the deadly car bon" There is no contending against the force of such evidence as that. A man so willful and so strong in the resources of his art must be allowed, so far at least, to have his way.
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