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Vulpian and Grancher saw the child, and consulted 

 over him : and, in view of the severity, the number, 

 and the position of the wounds for bites on the 

 hands are of a high degree of danger they decided 

 that they dared not refuse to treat him. The story 

 of Pasteur's loving anxiety and sleepless nights 

 over the child who is, or lately was, in the service 

 of the Pasteur Institute must be read, every word 

 of it, in the Vie de Pasteur. In October, came his 

 second patient, the young shepherd, Jupille, who 

 to protect some little boys had collared and killed 

 a mad dog, and got frightfully bitten : he was sent 

 by the Mayor of Villers-Farlay : six days had 

 passed before he arrived in Paris. He, likewise, is 

 in the service of the Institute. 



The news of these two cases brought a rush of 

 patients to the Rue d'Ulm : and a formal " Service 

 de la Rage " was organised. By March 1, 1886, the 

 number of patients treated was 350 : of whom only 

 one had died, a little girl, Louise Pelletier, badly 

 bitten on the head, and not brought for treatment 

 until 37 days afterwards. Then came the tragedy 

 of the arrival of 19 Russian patients from Smolensk, 

 who had been bitten, and some of them badly 

 mauled, by a mad wolf. It was fifteen days before 

 they arrived : and the bite of a mad wolf is even 

 worse than that of a mad dog. Of these 19 

 Russians, 3 died. The total number of patients 



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