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M. Louis Pasteur, who is undoubtedly the most distinguished chemist living, has completed at his laboratory in Paris a series of experiments which have led to important discoveries in regard to the treatment of hydrophobia. The conclusions reached by the great experimentalist, which are to be embodied in a report to the Academy of Sciences are of a character fit …

Dr. Edward C. Spitzka of New York Science is not always more fortunate than religion in its exponents and ministers, and men of fair and moderate minds will be slow to judge either cause by the mistakes of its conspicuous professors. These may differ in opinion on grave subjects and they have varying standards as to method. But all men …

Joseph Meister – First rabies victim to receive inoculation. It was the good fortune of the writer four years ago, to be the only guest — apart, of course, from “the guest of the evening”; — present at the dinner given to the venerable M. Chevreul by his colleagues of the Societé d’ Agriculture. The dinner was given at the …

Six little children were bitten by a dog in Newark on Wednesday night. There is reason to believe that the dog was suffering from rabies when the wounds were inflicted, from which fact it is fairly inferred that the children are in imminent danger of the awful disease known as hydrophobia. There is no disorder known to the faculty which …

Louis Pasteur overseeing the inoculation of patients with the vaccine for hydrophobia. Pasteur at 70 is worthily the recipient of many honors. He is the most illustrious exponent of the principle of inoculation. Its development has been side by side with the progress of tracing to their germ forms some of the most destructive diseases by which humanity is affected …

The interest taken by the public in the cases of the Newark children who were bitten less than a week ago by a rabid dog has a pathetic no less than a scientific basis. The happy inspiration of Dr. O’Gorman, the attending Physician, to communicate by cable with the sole living that authority on the subject of hydrophobia, Professor Pasteur, …

Lecture by Dr. Sternberg at the Long Island College Hospital Many members of the Alumni Association of the Long Island College Hospital sat in the lecture room yesterday evening and listened to a lecture delivered by Dr. George M. Sternberg, major and surgeon U.S. Army, on “Hydrophobia.” The lecturer while in France examined closely into Pasteur’s method of inoculation for …

Dr. Paul Gibier, Director of the New York Pasteur Institute Dr. Paul Gibier, pupil of the famous Pasteur and head of the New York institute at which the Pasteur system of treatment for rabies is practiced, is reported to have said that if the young Englishman, George Kendall, who died at the Chambers street hospital of alleged hydrophobia last Friday …

Lecture by Prof. Chandler, of The Board of Health A lecture on “Fermentation, and the Germ Theory of Disease,” was delivered at the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, a few days ago, by Dr. Charles F. Chandler, of the School of Mines, Columbia College, and President of the Board of Health of this City. This was one of a series of lectures …

Remarkable Growth of the New Science of Bacteriology – ORGANISMS WHICH CAUSE DISEASE – Discoveries Made in the Last Thirty Years by Pasteur, Koch, Behring, and Other Explorers. The world’s mightiest hunters in the last thirty years have been those who have pursued infinitesimal game – who have found, caught, killed, or held captive those curious little organisms called microbes …