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teur's generous ofler to treat tbem gratuitously. Aud as soon as this 

 cure became generally known crowds of ])ersous of all ages, stations, 

 aud countries, all bitten by rabid animals, visited every day Pasteur's 

 laboratory- in the Rue d'Ulm, which, from being one in which quiet scien- 

 tific researches were carried on, came to resemble the out-patient de- 

 partment of a great hospital. There I saw the French peasant, the 

 Russian moiijilc (suffering from the terrible bites of rabid wolves), the 

 swarthy Arab, the English policeman, with women too and children of 

 every age; in all perha})S a hundred patients. All were there under- 

 going the careful and kindly treatment, which was to insure them 

 against a horrible death. Such a sight will not be easily forgotten. 

 By degrees this wonderful cure for so deadly a disease attracted the 

 attention of men of science throughout the civilized world. The French 

 nation raised a monument to the discoverer better than any statue in 

 the shape of the " Pasteur Institute," an institution devoted to carry- 

 ing out in practice this anti-rabic treatment, with laboratories and every 

 other convenience for extending by research our knowledge of the pre- 

 ventive treatment of infectious disease. 



For be it remembered, we are only at the beginning of these things, 

 and what has been done is only an inkling of what is to come. Since 

 1885, twenty anti-rabic institutions hav^e been established in various 

 parts of the world, including Naples, Palermo, Odessa, St. Petersburg, 

 Constantinople, Rio Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, and Havana. 



We in England have also taken our share, though a small one, in 

 this work. In 1885, 1 moved in the House of Commons for a committee 

 to investigate and report on Pasteur's anti-rabic method of treatment. 

 This committee consisted of trusted and well-known English men of 

 science and physicians — Sir James Paget, Sir Joseph Lister, Drs. Bur- 

 den Sanderson, Lauder Brunton, Quain, Fleming, and myself, with 

 Prof. Victor Horsley as secretary. We examined the whole subject, 

 investigated the details of a number of cases, repeated Pasteur's experi- 

 ments on animals, discussed tuc published statistics, and arrived unani- 

 mously at the opinion that Pasteur was justified iu his conclusions, aiul 

 that his anti-rabic treatment had conferred a great and lasting benefit 

 on mankind. Since then His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who 

 always takes a vivid interest in questions affecting the well-being of 

 the people, has visited the Pasteur Institute, and has expressed himself 

 strongly iu favor of a movement, started by the present lord mayor of 

 London, for showing to Pasteur, by a substantial grant to his Institute, 

 our gratitude for what he has done to relieve upwards of two hundred 

 and fifty of our countrymen who have undergone treatment at his 

 hands, and likewise to enable poor persons who have been bitten to 

 undertake the journey to Paris, and the sojourn there necessary for 

 their treatment. This lasts about a fortnight, it is nearly painless, and 

 no single case of illness, much less of hydrophobia, due to the prevent- 

 ive treatment, has occurred amongst the seven thousand persons who 

 have so far undergone the cure. 



