CHAPTER XIII 



PASTEUR AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE 



Pasteur Commission Paris Exhibition 1889 Prince of Wales's Visit to 

 Institut Pasteur Anti-rabic Treatment Pasteur's letters Speech 

 on Anti-vivisection Pasteur's Character and Work The Lister 

 Institute Election to French Academy Centenary of the Institut 

 de France. 



I WAS fortunate in making the acquaintance of 

 Pasteur, whose portrait faces this chapter, as far 

 back as the early 'sixties, and when in Paris in the 

 year '82, as a member of the Technical Instruction 

 Commission, I took the opportunity of renewing my 

 friendship with him. I also made the acquaintance of 

 Roux, Metchnikoff, and others of his collaborators and 

 pupils. At that time he had astonished the world 

 with his remarkable discoveries relating to the cure 

 of chicken cholera anthrax or Russian cattle-plague 

 and the silk-worm disease, and he was beginning his 

 researches on that most terrible of all maladies, 

 hydrophobia. Some years after 1882 I again visited 

 Pasteur, then installed at the new Institut Pasteur in 

 the Rue Dutot. Here I found the most ample pro- 

 vision made for both investigation and the treatment of 

 disease. Everything had largely developed except the 

 physical strength of the great discoverer himself. The 

 wear and tear of constant study and unremitting work 

 had told upon a constitution never vigorous, but 



