The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-01-02
PROF. LOUIS PASTEUR.
The Learned Partisan who lnoculates
Bitten People to Prevent Hy-

drophobiA.
2 At the present time m0fe printers ink
is being used to detail thexloings Of Prof.
Pasteur of Paris than, pethaps, of anybody
else in the world. He hi patients from
several contries, including quite a number
from the United States. Four boys have
been sent from Newark, N T., to be treated
by him, and since they left for Europe, a
veterinary surgeon of tfea same city and
several others have followed. Prof. Pasteur
now has between seventy Ind eighty per-
sons under bis care. He Iempioys a sur
geon to inoculate according to Instructions
received from him, the Law of France not
permitting him to operate, as he is neither
a physician nor surgeon.
Prof. Pasteur experimental fyeyears be-
fore he announced that Id Ind discovered
a mode of preventing hydsanhobia in hu-
man beings, but moro thspayear previous
.ly he had given to the worA tie statement
that he was able to preve1it III in animals
bitten by rabid animals. IAis is the way
in which he describes his ,nebh1A of pro
curing theaasalls OF mo ocaiatf1l; fret
take the Ntlsan from the hrain a mad
dog. WiAiiAt paceiaats i rapIAs which
will die within fourteen dsssa and his gives
me the poison for = secoIa one, which is
yaccinateeiitIis same way. continue tl.is
practice Until have reached the twentieth
or tsxenty- fifth. From there up tp tie if
tie.h the rabbit will d.e iii eight days, and
after the flftieth the animal will become
mad Within seven days. This procedure
enables me to determine tho important
featuresof the treatment, namely; the Gura-
ton of the period of incubation. There
were people who we're afflicted with the ia
tai disease several years aftef the accident,
while others died after a few weeks
The learned Ffsnchrpan whose alleged
discovery is the wonder Of the times, is
about 60 years ofasetA14 tive Of Dole, III
tha1 1usa;. lis aa5ssl of Aumble Of
igin, and poor. When his father, aI Old
soldier decorated on the field of battle. re-
turned to France. he took up the trade of ii
tanner, and was obliged to work very hard
to keep the wolf from the door. Nevertlle-
less, he found time every evening to super
Intend the lessons Of his son, who, at an
early age, was sent to college and of whom
he was determined to make an educated
man. The boy, however, was no infant
prodigy, and it is reported of him that he
did not always take the shortest road either
to or from school. He was fonder of draw
ing than anything else, and whenever he
could escape from his books, would amuse
himself by taking portraits OF his neigh
bors. An old lady Of Arbois was heard to
regret this wasted talent and say, :" J. hat I.
pity he should have buried himself in chem
istry, for he mi ight have made his fortune
as a painter"
Ii due time, however, the passion for
work, afterWard SO imperative, was born
within him. He studied ut Besancon, and
there received the degree of bachelier-ca-
lettres. Immediately he was appointed tu-
tor III the same college, and Ill the intervals
of his duties he followed the course of math-
ematlcs necessary to prepare him for the
scientific examinations of the EcoIe Nor
male. He is now one of the most learned
chemists in the French capital