436 RABIES AND ITS CONTROL 



comes when you may have the immense happiness of thinking 

 that you have contributed in some way to the progress and good 

 of humanity. . . ." 



QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 



1. State some of the ancient ideas on the treatment of rabies. 



2. Describe Pasteur's experiments with saliva and blood. 



3. Discuss Pasteur's experiments with dried brain and spinal cords. 



4. Discuss the first vaccination of animals against rabies. 



5. Discuss the first vaccination of a person against rabies. 



6. What effect did the discovery of vaccination against rabies have 

 on the world ? 



7. What stimulus did Pasteur give later scientists by his work on 

 vaccination ? 



8. Discuss the cause, method of invasion, and symptoms of rabies. 



9. Discuss methods of preventing and controlling rabies. 



10. What is the importance of vaccination against rabies ? 



11. Is there anything in Pasteur's speech that indicates why he has 

 been called one of the finest scientists the world has ever produced ? 



12. Give a report on the life and work of Pasteur. 



SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS 



Broadhurst, Jean, How We Resist Disease (J. B. Lippincott & Co.). 

 De Kruif, P. H., The Microbe Hunters (Harcourt, Brace & Co.). 

 Haggard, H. W., The Science of Health and Disease (Harper and Bros.). 

 Vallery-Radot, Rene, The Life of Pasteur (Doubleday, Page, and Co.). 



