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teur, dreading evil consequences, spent sleepless nights. 

 It was impossible to draw back ; the experiment must 

 be brought to its conclusion. Finally, amid the en- 

 thusiasm of all, Joseph Meister was pronounced safe, 

 Closing and the Pasteur treatment for hydrophobia was proved 

 as sound in practice as it had appeared in theory. 

 Money was subscribed, and facilities were provided for 

 the treatment of all bitten persons. The movement 

 eventually spread to other, countries, and now almost 

 every part of the civilized world has some laboratory or 

 institute devoted to this and similar work. 



14. Some years still remained to Pasteur, but toward 

 the end his health failed, and he could work no more. 

 He was surrounded by his colleagues and pupils, who 

 were carrying on the work he had begun, and extending 

 it in every direction. On one occasion they organized 

 a celebration, when Pasteur, seated by the fire and un- 

 able to move, received the old students of the Ecole 

 Normale. In the laboratory, on tables, were arranged 

 the little flasks which Pasteur had used in his experi- 

 ments on spontaneous generation, little tubes used in 

 the investigation of wines, various preparations of in- 

 fectious germs. At about noon they carried Pasteur 

 into the laboratory, and Dr. Roux, his most brilliant 

 student, showed him the. newly discovered bacillus of 

 plague. "There is still a great deal to do !" said Pas- 

 teur, as he looked at these things, thinking of the 

 disciples who had gone out from his laboratory to all 

 parts of the world. After this, his strength gradually 

 ebbed away, and he died on September 28, 1895. 



Reference 



VALLERY-RADOT, RENE. The Life of Pasteur. Doubleday, Page & Co. 



