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PASTEUR, THE SAVANT.
THE GREAT FRENCH CHEMIST AND
HIS EXPERIMENTS.
How He Prevents HydrePhobls-The Firss
Practical Application Of His Dis-
covery - The Little Alasciaa.
The ln0culated MenaEerie.

covery . The Little Alaacinn.
The lnoculated Menagrrie.
Especial Couespoudencel
PARIS, Dec. l7.-The great French chemist
Pasteur. has, rs you know, been busy in hi
laboratory for several years trying to dis
cover q remedy for scanine madness HI
thinks that he has now succeedei He state,
publicly before the Paris Academy o
10 be rendered more practical, moro easy o
universal application, in order TO protec
mankind. rs well as the lower order Of ani
mails, from that terrible and heretofors in
durable disease known as hydrophobia
N. Pasteur thus describes the wouderfn
process by which he arrives at this grand re
suit: Il inoculate, under the dura-mater. 4
rabbit whoss skull has been trepanned, viii
q fragment Of the tissue taken from the mar
row Of a rabid creature Ths incubation Of
the disease lasts two weeka In . like man
ner take from this dad rabbit some mar.
row with which inoculate . second rabbit
and so on until have q score o. moro ti
nos'N asAos ~ ssoo = yV0 0AsoAzS<
there is progressive diminution in the du.
ration Of the incubation. 70 that by knowing
the number Of the rabbit in the series from
which You took the inoculating matter you
can tell beforehand with precision the vsry
hour when the subject on which you are ex.
perimeuting will be affected The rabid
VIRUS which obtain by this means b Per.
fectly pure and always the sama Ths
spinal marrow Of the inoculatsd rabbit d
virulent throughout its whole extent Insxt
take strips Of it and suspend them in the dry
air of phials flied at the bottom with potas-
sium
Now here is the way in which I render
dogs refractory to the incubation Of rabid
virus. whatever it energy Or quantity may
be Il win be remembered that have 1t
my disposition . series Of phials containing
the pieces Of rabid marrow, graduated &C
cording to the length Of time before they
showed signs Of being affected BY inocula-
tion. so that the Oldest are the isast virulsnt
and the more recent very energetic. thsn
insert every day under the dura-m mater o.
much rabid marrow as can Be hsld BY q
Pravaz syringe. beginning with ths Oldest
specimen and ending with the newest A
dog treated In this way b absolutely proof
against hydrophooia Fifty timss in sue
cession made this experiment, without ever
once failing. and was then coovincsd that
the same process could be employed In tn
case Of a man, even after he had bssn bitten
by mad animal"
M Pasteur bad reached this stage In his
labor when he was suddenly called upon to
attempt a practical application Of his dis
covery. He gave an account of this intersst-
ing case in the communicative, already 10
ferred 70. which he read before The Acadsmy
of ScienceA A writer in Ths Paris Temps
has added some embellishments to ths re-
markable story. It Is from these two sources
that draw the materials for the following
history, which Is unique In The annals Of
science:
On the eth Of July last Jossph Nsisesr, The
ayear-old son Of poor balsr hvine ct
Steige, in Aisace, was on his way 70 school
in the neighboring village Of Meisaagott
He was sauntering along . narrow foot path
when q big dog sprang at him and threw
him on tbs ground rhs little fellow, terror
but covered his face with hh arm and
shrieked at the top Of his voica Ths 6sroe
animal had his victim completely in his
power. and whsn . mason, who w. working
near by, came to the rescue, and drove o0
the dog. BY the repeated blown Of IN Iron
bar. the boy. covered with dust and saliva
was found to have not lea than fourteen tsr-
rible bites on his bodG. The parents 1t frss
thought that their child bad been attacked
simply by had dog. but when they learned
that the animal was mad, and had been shot
by his master. they were plunged into
despair The country doctor vas called in
and, after doing what little hs could for th
suffering boy, advised them to start immedi,
ately for Paris and to put The CO in thr
hands of NJ Pasteur
The owner Of the dog offered to accom-
pany the afflicted mother and her son to th..
capital, and on the morning Of July ths Lit
tie party knocksd at the door Of ths Rres,
chemists famous laboratory in IL Rue
d'Ulm n Pasteur isasasd to thsir story
and examined the dishgured boy. Troubled
in mind, touched to the core by tHs misfor-
tune Of this poor Alsacian family. full OF
confidence in his last experiments, sut also
recoiling at the idea of making this child the
subject of the first application Of his method
to q human being, this master Of science de-
manded q few moments of reflection, and
hurried away to consult with two Of his col
leagues, distinguished Parisian physicians.
and to ask them what he ought to do under
the circumstances The doctors looked st
the wourds and prono9pcsd death inevitable
unless the fatal result could be warded Oh by
the new discovery. So n Pasteur went to
work vtth . heavy heart but . clear con
scienca
A portion Of his laboratory was con
vertsd into a bedroom and mother and boy
were made to feel at home thsre The child
amused himself by looking at the dogs and
chickens and rabbits and Guinea piRs-a
small fnnoculated menagsrie-that gave
such . unique air to this scientific Workshop
in ths vsry hsart oe this grsas city. Per
heps b imagined himasf On some farm IN