The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-14

The Great French Scientist Described
by nm American Writer.

Emily Crawford, in London Truth.
Pasteur's death was long expected. The
wonder is that he did not die ten years
h he did 1 nof His Il a p prsat eef ms ac%b haWe .nis
were prior to 1860. when he began to
think he ought TO make money. There was
more business than science in the Pasteur
Institute and everything connected with il.
Still Pasteur had great mental faculties
and was free from every sort OF anecta-
ton. He was a good-hearted man within
been familiar from infancy with hides fresh
from shambles to be tanned. destroyed
fine sensibilities. 1T was something appai.
where dogs inoculated with rabies were
kept. Pasteur did not receive a medical
education and was not licensed to inoculaee
unscientific, and he often showed ignor-
ance. 1 heard him seriously contend that
in undergoing his treatment for rabies
ones blood was purified. ones appetite was
sharpened and ones general health inn
proved. He advised "vaccines'' as Holloway
might have advised his pills and ointment.
French term madre. Pasteur was always
anxious to know. when a dog-bitten per-
had or had not been killed. He would not
hear of it's being kept under observation at
a vets. The band of American children
who came for treatment when he practiced
at the Rue d'Ulm, were all bitten by the
same dog. Pasteur inoculated them ac-
cording to his formula and sent them back
cured to the United states. Iney were
there handed over to Barnum to be ex-
hibited. When they ceased. through being
stale, to attract, the dog that bit them
was produced and taken about to be shown:
He was in the best health and spirits and
a pile of affidavits established his identity.
Pasteur was informed of this American
ism. He took 1t quietly. But ever after ne
showed anxiety to know, when a bitten
person came, what had become of the dog.
/ fancy. though cures" are greatly multi
piled. that mortality from rabies Is not less
made a deal of money with his sheep and
poultry vaccines. / have spoken or his De-
ing kind-hearted within narrow limits He
worshiped his mother, who used to tell him
when he was a child stories about the great
battles in which his father had fought be-
fore he settled down to the trade OF tan
ner. HI was also a most tender HUSBAND,
father and especially grandfather Bonnat
He never let his grandchildren sleep at the
institute. Was this from a fear of noxious
microbes, which are worse in the dark and
dampness IF night than. in the day.
time? 1t was IN memory OF MS fatn er a ,ha
Cross of a Prussian Order of Knighthood.
Pasteur heard with Indignation OF a novel
entertainment given in honor OF the Medical
Congress. held in London in 1892. The per-
scientist. He had collected, by the aid of
microphones, the signs and groans OF SICK
wards and of surgical amphitheaters. and
the last words Of patients dying of con-
diseases. These vocal evidences Of human
suffering were produced at a grand soiree,
to which the congress4 and society were In
yited. The sounds would have been in their
place in a medical Lecture room. But, as
Pasteur Justly remarked. they were bias
phemous at a soiree. He looked upon the
scientist who gave the entertainment as
deserving to be vivisected.