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Kollin, where he kept and experimented upon sick sheep, horses, 

 chickens affected with cholera, mad dogs and guinea-pigs. At the 

 end of five years of study and experiment he was satisfied that his 

 remedies would prove effective for animals, but was skeptical as to their 

 efficacy with men. While in doubt a boy of nine by the name of 

 Meister, from Alsace, was brought to him for treatment. He had been 

 bitten eleven times, and his case was thought hopeless. Drs. Vulpian 

 and Graucher advised Pasteur to try his remedies on him. He might 

 live. He would die unless something was done for him. At about 

 the same time the boy Jupille, who had shown such bravery that the 

 academy had voted- him one of its prizes for " Vertu," came to him. 

 Both were cured. Great popular enthusiasm followed. People who 

 had been bitten by mad dogs and who had thought there could be no 

 help for them came every day to the rue d'Ulm where Pasteur was at 

 work. In 1886, of nineteen Eussian peasants, several of whom had 

 been bitten in the head, fifteen were cured. Quarters soon became too 

 small. Confident in his remedies, and in himself, Pasteur now ap- 

 pealed to the public for money for a new site, larger buildings and 

 opportunity for more extensive experiments. More than 3,000,000 

 francs were contributed. The new building, which was very plain, 

 was put up at Vaugrinau, and opened November 11, 1888, with great 

 eclat. The president of the republic was there and with him some of 

 the most distinguished men of the day. 



More than one hundred persons every day are inoculated with the 

 healing vaccine. The course of treatment occupies about eighteen 



Laboratory of Dr. Roux in the Pasteur Institute. 



