The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-30

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Paris, Sept, 2S,-Prof Louis Pasteur,
the distinguished chemist and dlscoy-
erer of the Pasteur treatment for the
cure of rabies, is dead.
The distinguished scientist who pass
cid away in Paris last night, was born
on December p, 1892, in the little vii
lage Of Dole, ia the Province of Jura.
He early evluoed an aptitude for
scientific pursuits In 1910 he entered
the university ana later became SUI
pernumerary master OF studies in the
! College of Besancon. He was received
as a pupil in the Eeole Normale in 1913;
took the degree Of doctor in 1885, and
was appointed professor of physic in
the faculty of sciences, Strasburg, in
1S4S
AT the end Of 1854 the organization Of
the newly created faculty of sciences at
Lille was intrusted to him as dean. In
1857 he returned to Paris and took
charge of the Ecole Normale. In De
cember 1868, he became professor of
| geology, physics and chemistry at the
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and was elected
member of the institute,
The Royal Society Of London awarded
DR., Pasteur in 1856 the Rumford medal
for his researches into the polarization
of light. He was decorated with the
Cross of the Legion of Honor on Au-
gust ~, 1853, and became an officer of
the order ten years later and its com
mander in 1865
In 1869 the Royal Society of london
elected him one of its fifty foreign mem
bers. In 1868 the minister of agricul-
ture of Austria accorded him a prize of
10000 florins for the discovery of the
best remedy for the cure of the silk
worm disease, which had threatened to
destroy one of the chief industries of
! that country.
In 1898 the Societe offered him 1900
francs for his collection Of works upon
alcoholic fermentation. Finally, the
National assembly, as a reward for his
labors presented him with an annuity
of $4,000 francs.
! He was raised to the rank of grand
officer of the Legion of Honor on Octo-
Der a. 1878. His reception into the
French academy took place on April u,
1882. The same year the Albert medal
was awarded him by the Society of Arts
for his researches into zymotic diseases
in silk worms and domestic animals,
M. Pasteur crowned his scientific la
bors by discovering a cure by inocula-
ton for hydrophobia. 1t is chiefly to his
bors in this direction that he owes his
| worldwide celebrity His discovery
that the inoculation of a person bitten
by a mad dog with an attenuated virus
of the poison producing rabies, acts IN
such way as to neutralize the original
poison, and enables the patient to re-
cover, has almost revolutionized the sci
ence of medicine as applied to this and
kindred diseases.
1t was only in 1880 that NJ Pasteur
made up his mind to begin an exhaus-
tive study of hydrophobia. All that he
foresaw at first was the possibility of
fascinating dogs against rabies. 1t was
only in 1885 thai the first person, the
boy, Joseph Meister, was inocculated as
a desperate measure after the doctors
had given him up.
A large hospital and laboratory was
erected in Paris by public and munich
pal subscription for the treatment Of
hydrophobia under the Pasteur system.
Patients and students from all parts Of
the world have journeyed to Paris to
place themselves under the care Of the
distinguished scientist.
In 1886 the Pasteur made it's first re-
port; Two thousand six hundred ana
+r1
that year against hydrophobia twenty
five of them died. In 1887, LOO persons
were treated; thirteen died In 1888, L.
622 We're treated; nine died. In 1889, L.
$50 were treated; seven died In 1890,
| $40 were treated; FIVE died In 1891,
1889 were treated; three died. Each
year the per cent. Of deaths has been
lower
Since the establishment of the institu-
ton at Paris similar ones have been
founded at Berlin, st. Petersburg and
New York, where Pasteurs great work
is carried on
In "Pasteur at Home in the Pail
Mall Budget a writer gives the follow
ing pen picture of the famous scien-
tist:
THE great master does not look to
be seventy years of age as he sits be-
hind his desk, his elbow on the table,
his hand supporting his head. His hair
and beard are still iron gray; the hair
is concealed largely by the silk skull
cap he always wears, but the beard is
Iabundant. The eyes are as penetrating,
as full of ardor, as ever. 1t is only
when he speaks or moves that one sees
the ravages of the paralysis which
overlook him twenty-five years ago,
| after his terrible three years of labor in
the little house in Alais investigating
the disease of the sill1worm. The whole
left side has been since then nearly
useless. His speech is hesitating, his
motion difficult, but in spite of his fee
bleness he spares no pains to interest
his guest, One talks with M. Pasteur
with ease and naturalness Of the fire.
side"
Pasteur's discovery of cure for rab-
les led him to take up other studies
especially of bacteriology. He believed
that incubation pointed cure of many
if not all, diseases. He endeavored to
discover such a cure for consumption
and when Prof Koch and others took
I'D the line he had suggested watched
their progress with great interest.
DIR. CHEERS TRIBUTE.
DR.. Paul Gibier, Prof. Pasteur's rep
resentative in this country, and the