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tion of the older designation. It is, however, of 

 little importance which term is used so long as it 

 is well known what is meant, and despite possible 

 protests I shall use whichever word seems the 

 more suitable and euphonious. 



Pasteur had long pondered over this mysterious 

 disease. M. Bourrel, a veterinarian, who had 

 sought for a means of preventing the spread of 

 hydrophobia in dogs and who had found nothing 

 more effective than filing down their teeth, sent two 

 rabid animals to Pasteur in the hope that this in- 

 vestigator might succeed where his own efforts had 

 failed. One of the dogs was half paralyzed, his 

 jaw hanging down and his tongue covered with 

 foam. The other was in the furious state more 

 typical of the disease, biting ferociously at every- 

 thing within reach, and giving utterance to the 

 most doleful howls. From these and other rabid 

 animals subsequently obtained, Pasteur took some 

 of the saliva and inoculated it into rabbits. He 

 did the same with saliva drawn from a human sub- 

 ject, a little girl of 5 years of age who had just been 

 admitted to a hospital. She was suffering from 

 spasms, thirst with inability to swallow, and fits of 

 furious mania; after twenty-four hours of agony 

 she died. Saliva from the little girl and also that 



