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named Lenoir founded a prize of twelve hun- 

 dred pounds, to be awarded by the Royal So- 

 ciety of Medicine to the author of the best 

 paper on the methods of curing hydrophobia. 

 It was won by a certain Dr. Roux, a physician 

 at Dijon, and, among the methods of saving 

 those who had been bitten, he recommended 

 cauterisation with hot irons, and more espe- 

 cially with antimony tri-chloride ("butter of 

 antimony"). 



In the eighteenth century the problem of hy- 

 drophobia, although it had been studied more 

 scientifically, had made but little progress, until 

 Pasteur caused a sensation by discovering its 

 solution. He began his researches in 1880 with 

 the collaboration of Doctors Chamberland, 

 Roux and Thuillier. We cannot follow them 

 through all the details of the long succession of 

 exceedingly delicate experiments that often 

 had to be commenced all over again in order to 

 obtain assured results ; but a very simple sum- 

 mary will make it clear that Pasteur's genius 

 was as fruitful as ever, and that his illness had 



