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describe what his feelings must have been, and how 

 for months he must have had the horrible feeling of 

 uncertainty hanging over him. 



Another important part of Pasteur's discovery is 

 that it is now possible to ascertain with certainty 

 whether or no the animal inflicting the bite was really 

 mad or not ; for this purpose an examination of the 

 medulla of the animal has to be made. This is not 

 only carried on in Paris, but also at the Brown 

 Institute in London. In those cases in which the dog 

 is proved not to be mad, there is not the slightest 

 danger of hydrophobia to the person who has been 

 bitten ; for, though a common, it is an altogether false 

 idea, that a dog which is not mad is able to cause the 

 disease. 



Sir James Whitehead, when he was Lord Mayor, 

 became much interested in Pasteur's anti-rabic 

 treatment. He called a meeting in the Mansion 

 House for the purpose of raising a fund. This fund 

 was to serve the double purpose of making an 

 acknowledgment of the indebtedness of the English 

 people to Pasteur and his Institute, no less than 200 

 cases of English persons having been gratuitously 

 treated up to that time by Pasteur's system, and of 

 defraying the expenses of the journey to such of our 

 poorer countrymen as might hereafter need treatment. 

 The Royal Society, in a letter from the President, Sir 

 Gabriel Stokes, assured Pasteur of the warm interest 

 which the Society took in the recognition of his services 

 in carrying out so remarkable an extension of that 

 natural knowledge which the Society was founded to 

 develop. To express their approval in a more formal 

 manner, the Society appointed their officers, together 

 with Sir James Paget, Professor Lankester, and myself, 

 to represent them at the meeting. A considerable 



