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of Pasteur, was supreme. Hydrophobia offered these 

 conditions. 



Again, it was Dr. Lannelongue who introduced 

 Pasteur to his first case of hydrophobia. On 

 December 10, 1880, a child of five years old, who 

 had been bitten in the face a month previously, was 

 dying in the Trousseau Hospital. Devoured at the 

 time by a raging thirst, and seized with a horror for 

 all liquids, he approached with his lips the spout of a 

 closed coffee pot, then suddenly started back the 

 throat contracted a prey to such fury that he insulted 

 the nursing sister who was attending on him. He was 

 at the same time attacked by aerophobia to a prodigious 

 degree. At a certain moment, the heel of one of his 

 feet protruded from the bed. An assistant blew on it. 

 The child had not seen the assistant, and the breath 

 of air was so light as to be almost imperceptible. The 

 poor child flew into a rage, and a violent spasm 

 seized him in the throat. The next day delirium 

 began, a frightful delirium. The frothy matters 

 which filled his throat suffocated him. 



Four hours after his death, the mucus from the 

 palate of the child was collected. It was diluted wdth 

 a little water, and two rabbits were inoculated under 

 the skin of the abdomen. The rabbits perished in 

 less than thirty-six hours. The saliva of these dead 

 rabbits also transmitted the disease to fresh rabbits. 

 Did it not seem as if one had got hold of an inocula- 



