294 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



On Tuesday last, the 20th of October, with the obliging assistance 

 of Drs. Vulpian and Grancher, I began to treat a young man fifteen 

 years old, who had been bitten six days before, in both hands, and 

 whose condition was exceptionally grave. 



The Academy will perhaps not be uninterested to hear the story of 

 this young man's courage and presence of mind. He is a shepherd, 

 named Jean-Baptiste Jupille, of Villers Farlay in the Jura, who, see- 

 ing a large dog of suspicious appearance rush at a group of six of his 

 comi'ades, all younger than himself, sprang, whip in hand, in front of 

 the animal. The dog seized Jupille by the left hand. Jupille then 

 knocked the dog down, held it under himself, opened its jaw with his 

 right hand to relieve his left, not without receiving several new bites, 

 and then, with the thong of his whip tied up its muzzle, and, taking 

 off one of his wooden shoes, dispatched the dog with it. 



I shall promptly make known to the Academy the outcome of this 

 new experiment. 



[After the reading of ]M Pasteur's papei", M. Vulpian remarked 

 that the Academy should not be surprised to see one of the members 

 of the Section of Medicine and Surgery take the floor to express the 

 feelings of admiration which the communication had inspired in him. 

 These feelings, he continued, " will be shared, I am convinced, by the 

 whole medical profession. A remedy has at last been found for rabies, 

 that terrible malady, against which all therapeutic measures had mis- 

 carried till now. M. Pasteur, who has had no precursor in this road, 

 has been led, by a series of researches pursued uninterruptedly for 

 years, to create a method of treatment that enables him surely to 

 prevent the development of hydrophobia in a man who has been bit- 

 ten by a mad dog : I say surely, because, after what I have seen in M. 

 Pasteur's laboratory, I do not doubt the constant success of this treat- 

 ment whenever it is piit in practice in its completeness within a few 

 days after the rabid bite has been inflicted. It becomes henceforth 

 necessary to take into consideration the organization of a service for 

 the treatment of hydrophobia by M. Pasteur's method. Every person 

 bitten by a mad dog must be made able to enjoy the benefit of this 

 great discovery, which aflixes the seal to the glor}^ of our illustrious 

 associate, and which will shed an incomparable luster upon our dear 

 country." On motion of Baron Larrey, a prize was proposed for 

 young Jupille, in recognition of his bravery and devotion. 



The President of the Academy, M. Bouley, expressed his full sym- 

 pathy with the feelings which the Academy had just manifested by its 

 applause. The date of the 2Gth of October, 1885, he said, would be 

 marked as a great day among the festivals of French biology and medi- 

 cine, and among the festivals of the medicine of the whole world. He 

 would ask M. Pasteur whether, if, during the course of the preventive 

 inoculations, an inoculated dog should bite a person or other animals 

 in play, it would communicate rabies to them. 



