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Monte Generaso, Switzerland,June 25, 1889 My Lord Mayor, I greatly regret my inability to be present at the meeting which is to be held, under your Lordship’s auspices, in reference to M. Pasteur and his Institute. The unremitting labours of that eminent Frenchman during the last half-century have yielded rich harvest of new truths, and are models of exact and …

Originally published in the Eastern Medical Journal on October 1, 1886 Dear Sir: I take the liberty of enclosing you the latest report of the work done by M. Louis Pasteur, the great French inoculator, who has personally favored me with the same. The system is attracting as much attention abroad as here, even more, for abroad his successes are …

Originally published in the Eastern Medical Journal on October 1, 1886 Pasteur has used it with marked success in the treatment of rabies; he does not claim that he can cure the disease, but from numerous experiments upon animals he believes that its development can be prevented even after the person or animal has been bitten by a rabid dog. …

Originally published in the Eastern Medical Journal on August 1, 1886 The Evening Post quotes as follows from the Pall Mall Gazette : “A most extraordinary museum has just been opened in the Rue Vauguelin. It is difficult to say whether it should best be called a museum, or a factory, or a form, or a mertagerie. In fact it …

Originally published in the Eastern Medical Journal on July 1, 1886 In view of the great interest now taken in this subject in consequence of the brilliant investigations of Pasteur, I think it desirable to take an early opportunity of stating that I have found the microbe which appears clearly to constitute the virus of this disease. It is a …

Originally published in the Eastern Medical Journal on June 1, 1885 The first statement of M. Pasteur since the recent deaths of the Russians at the Hotel Dieu has just been made before the Board of Health. Referring to the case of the who succumbed to hydrophobia on March 22 last, M. Pasteur said that the man had been bitten …

A Dutiful Son, Ardent Patriot, Self Denying Christian – Anecdotes About His Career – His Love of Mankind – His Noble Character and (unreadable) Nature (Correspondence of the Eagle.) Eagle Paris Bureau, October 6 – Had Pasteur seriously thought about if it is probable that he, in his will, would have forbidden the funeral, which equaled in grandeur those of …

Old and New Superstitions – The Dog Days and the Dog Star – Progress of Madness – How to Treat a Bite – M. Pasteur and his Discoveries. According to almanac makers we shall shortly be passing through the dog days. The star “whose burning breath,” as Homer sang, “taints the red air with fevers, plagues and death,” will soon …

Four boys from Newark, NJ sent to Paris for Pasteur’s treatment. Intelligence has been sent by cable from France that the Newark children who were bitten by a rabid dog and sent to Paris for treatment by the eminent French scientist, M. Pasteur, arrive in safety. No time was lost in conveying them to the capital, and the great man, …

So much depends upon a settlement of the question whether Professor Pasteur really has or has not, out of all the incalculable possibilities of error, succeeded in choosing the one and only truth in relation to certain pathological conditions, that the length and earnestness of the debate that is going on may well be pardoned. For nearly a quarter of …