324 THE LIFE OF PASTEUR 



decided that tlie farm of Pouilly le Fort would henceforth bear 

 the name of Clos Pasteur. 



The one remaining unvaccinated sheep died that same night. 

 Amongst the vaccinated lot one ewe alone caused some anxiety. 

 She was pregnant, and died on the 4th of June, but from an 

 accident due to her condition, and not from the consequences 

 of the inoculation, as was proved by a post-mortem examination. 



Amongst the cattle, those which had been vaccinated showed 

 no sign whatever of any disturbance; the others presented 

 enormous oedemata. 



Pasteur wrote to his daughter: ''Success is definitely con- 

 firmed; the vaccinated animals are keeping perfectly well, the 

 test is complete. On Wednesday a report of the facts and 

 results will be drawn up which I shall communicate to the 

 Academic des Sciences on Monday, and on Tuesday to the 

 Academic de Medecine.'^ 



And, that same day, he addressed a joyful telegram to Bouley, 

 who, in his quality of General Inspector of Veterinary Schools, 

 had been obliged to go to Lyons. Bouley answered by the 

 following letter: 



"Lyons, June 5, 1881. Dearest Master, your triumph has 

 filled me with joy. Though the days are long past now when 

 my faith in you was still somewhat hesitating, not having suf- 

 ficiently impregnated my mind with your spirit, as long as the 

 event — which has just been realized in a manner so rigorously 

 in conformity with your predictions — was still in the future, ] 

 could not keep mj^self from feeling a certain anxiety, of which 

 you were yourself the cause, since I had seen you also a prey 

 to it, like all inventors on the eve of the day which reveals 

 their glory. At last your telegram, for which I was pining, 

 has come to tell me that the world has found you faithful to all 

 your promises, and that you have inscribed one more great date 

 in the annals of Science, and particularly in those of Medicine, 

 for which you have opened a new era. 



*'I feel the greatest joy at j^our triumph; in the first place, 

 for you, who are to-day receiving the reward of your noble 

 efforts in the pursuit of Truth; and — shall I tell you? — for 

 myself too, for I have so intimately associated myself with your 

 work that I should have felt your failure absolutely as if it had 

 been personal to me. All my teaching at the Museum consists 

 in relating your labours and predicting their fruitfulness.*' 



Those experiments at Pouilly le Fort caused a tremendous 



