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pathological conditions may be under which dogs 

 are kept they never contract hydrophobia," accord- 

 ing to Pasteur, "except when bitten or licked by a 

 rabid animal. This is why several countries are 

 free from hydrophobia, and it is only necessary 

 to follow the procedure of Australia, which compels 

 every imported dog to be held for several months 

 in quarantine so that it would have time to develop 

 hydrophobia if it had been infected by it, in order 

 to keep the country entirely free from the disease." 

 Pasteur's account of his success in the preven- 

 tive inoculation against hydrophobia aroused the 

 keenest interest and it was followed by enthusiastic 

 applause. Among the entertainments planned for 

 the members of the Congress by the hospitable 

 Danes was a visit to the large Carlsberg Brewery. 

 Several years before (1879), the philanthropic 

 owner of this brewery, J. C. Jacobson, had engaged 

 the artist, Paul Dubois, to make a marble bust of 

 Pasteur, and had it placed in the Carlsberg Labora- 

 tory in honor of Pasteur's services to science. The 

 visit to the brewery showed the application of many 

 of the processes which Pasteur had recommended 

 as a result of his studies on beer, and Pasteur was 

 gratified to see a bronze bust of himself placed in 

 a niche near the entrance. In the Carlsberg labora- 



