LOS THE LIFE OF PASTEUB 



d.-cided that the farm of Pouilly le Fort would henceforth bear 

 the name of Clos Pasteur. 



The one remaining unvaccinated sheep died that same night . 

 Amonj vaccinated lot one ewe alone caused some anxi> 



gnant, and died on the 4th of June, but from an 

 accident due to her condition, and not from the consequen 

 of the inoculation, as was proved by a post-mortem examination. 



Amongst the cattle, those which had been vaccinated showed 

 no sign whatever of any disturbance; the others preserr 

 enormous a demata. 



Pasteur wrote to his daughter : " Success is definitely con- 

 firmed ; the vaccinated animals are keeping perfectly well, the 

 • t is complete. On Wednesday a report of the facts and 



raits will be drawn up which I shall communicate to the 

 Academie des Sciences on Monday, and on Tuesday to the 

 Academie de M^decine." 



And, that same day, he addressed a joyful telegram to Bou 

 who, in his quality of General Inspector of Veterinary Schools, 

 had been obliged to go to Lyons. Bouley answered by the 

 following lett 



' Lyons, June 5, 1881. Dearest Master, your triumph has 

 t.lled me with joy. Though the days are long past now when 

 faith in you was still somewhat hesitating, not having suf- 

 ficiently impregnated my mind with your spirit, as long as the 

 event — which has just been realized in a manner so rigorously 

 in conformity with your predictions — was still in the future, I 

 could not keep myself from feeling a certain anxiety, of which 

 i were yourself the cause, since I had seen you also a prey 

 to it, like all inventors on the eve of the day which reveals 

 •y. At last your telegram, for which I pining, 



has come to tell me that the world has found you faithful to all 

 your promifl ss, and that you have inscribed one mo A date 



in the annals of Scu nee, and particularly in those of Medicine, 

 for which you have opened a new . 



"I feel the j it joy at your triumph ; in the first place, 



for you, who are ring the reward of your noble 



efforts in the pursuit of Truth: and —shall I tell you?— for 

 m\ o. for 1 have so intimately associated myself with your 



irk that I Bhonld have felt your failure absolutely as if it had 

 -onal to me. All my teaching at the Museum consists 

 in relating your labours ;ind predicting their fruitfulness." 



Those experiments at Pouilly le Fort caused a tremendous 



