412 ILLINOIS STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



One illustration must serve to show further what I 

 mean by devices to humanize this subject. About Jan- 

 uary 1st, a rabid dog bit a child in each of two families 

 in our community, and a man and his wife and a child 

 in another family. The first two families took their 

 children to Chicago for the Pasteur treatment. The third 

 family went some distance to a mad-stone which has 

 local fame and is said to have been taken from the heart 

 of a white deer. This stone is said to have been handed 

 down to its present owner for several generations. 



The local paper gave all these particulars and the 

 article began to appear in our scrap books. Although 

 we had not reached the topic "rabies" in our course, a 

 full discussion was had in class. Soon after, the career 

 of Pasteur was brought in as a laboratory day lecture. 

 It was made clear that the family that had gone to the 

 mad-stone was running a great risk. Last week the 

 woman developed hydrophobia and died a horrible death. 

 After the details came out in the paper, the matter came 

 up in class and was further gone over. These young 

 people have had one lesson at least that has gone home. 

 This is humanizing biology. 



