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bring himself to make the last inoculations of the 

 child. And yet it is necessary to go on with it 

 now! The boy continues to be very well." "Pas- 

 teur," says Radot, "passed through a series of di- 

 verse and contrary emotions, all equally intense, — 

 hopes, fears, anguish, and an ardent yearning to 

 snatch little Meister from death. He could no 

 longer work. Every night he was troubled with a 

 fever, dreaming of little Meister whom he had seen 

 playing in the garden suffocating with hydro- 

 phobia, like the dying child he had seen at the 

 Trousseau Hospital in 1880. In vain did his ex- 

 perimental genius assure him that the virus of this 

 most terrible disease was about to be conquered, 

 that humanity was about to be delivered from this 

 horror, but his human tenderness was stronger than 

 all else. If he made the sufferings and anxieties of 

 others his own, what were his feelings in the pres- 

 ence of 'the dear lad!'" 



The last inoculation having been given, the lad, 

 after claiming a kiss from "dear Monsieur Pas- 

 teur," as he had come to call him, went to sleep in 

 the evening, quite unconscious of the anxiety which 

 his benefactor was suffering in his behalf. For 

 many days after the completion of the treatment, 

 Pasteur had little rest until time gradually abated 



