Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-11-06
PASTEUR BY MRS. CRAWFORD.

EhO1LOh III HNO. NNhWfoNDs
'Pasteur's death was long expected,
writes Mrs Crawford in letter to
London Truth. 1.-THE wonder is that
he did not die ten years ago l think
it pity for his name that he did not.
His greatest achievements were prior
to 1860, when he began to think he
ought to make money. There was
more business than science in the Pas
teur Institute, and every thing connected
with it, Still Pasteur had great men
tai faculties, and was free from every
sort of affectation. He was a good
hearted man within narrow limits.
dare say that, having been familiar
from infancy with hides fresh from
shambles to be tanned. destroyed fine
sensibilities. 1t was something appal-
ling to see him go the rounds of the
cages where dogs inooulated with
rabies were kept. Pasteur did not
receive medical education, and was
not licensed to inoculate human beings.
In many respects he was unscientific,
and he often showed ignorance. l
heard him seriously contend that in
undergoing his treatment for rabies
ones blood was purified, ones appetite
was sharpened and ones general health
improved. He advised 'vaccines" as
Holloway might have advised his pills
and ointment. He had that shrewd
peasant wit which the French term
madre. Pasteur was always SO anxious
to know, when a dog bitten person
came for treatment, whether the dog
had or had not been killed. He would
not hear of its being kept under Eobse1-
walton at vet s. The band of Amer.
lean children who came for treatment
when he praoticed at the Rue d'Ulm,
were all bitten by the same dog. Pas.
terr inoculated them according to his
formula and sent them back cured to
the United States They were there
handed over to Barnum to be exhib.
tied. When they ceased, through be-
ing stale, to attract. the dog that bit
them was produced and taken about tc
be shown. He was in the best health
and spirits, and a pile of affidavits
established his identity.
"Pasteur was informed of this Amer.
icanisu. He took it quietly. But ever
after he showed anxiety to know when
bitten person came, what had become
of the dog. fancy. though cures are
greatly multiplied, that mortality from
rabies is not less than it formerly was.
Pasteur must have made a deal Of
money with his sheep and poultry vac
cines. I have spoken Of his being
kind.heartsd within narrow limits.
He worshiped his mother, who used tc
tell him when he was a child stories
about the great battles in which his
father had fought before he settled
down to the trade of tanner. He was
also most tender husband, father and
especially grandfather. Bonnat painted
him with his little granddaughter. He
never let his grandchildren sleep at the
institute. Was this from a fear of
noxious microbes, which are worse in
the damp and darkness of night than
in the daytime? 1t was in memory OF
his father and mother that he refused
not long ago the Cross Of a Prussian
Order of knighthood.
'Pasteur heard with Indignation OF
novel entertainment given in honor
of the Medical Congress, held in Lon.
don in 1892. The person who gave
it wishes to rank as great scientist.
He had collected, by the aid of micro
phones, the signs and groans of sick
wards and of surgical amphitheaters,
and the last words of patients dying OF
consumption and other lung and throat
diseases. These vocal evidences OF
human suffering were produced at 8
grand soiree to which the congress an6
society were invited. The sounds
would have been in their place in {
medical lecture room. But. as Past
eur justly remarked. they were bias
phemous at a soiree. He looked upon
the scientist who gave the entertain
ment as deserving to be vivisected.