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the condemned man, through his lawyer, on 

 the eve of his client's execution, the choice be- 

 tween imminent death and an experiment con- 

 sisting of preventive inoculation of hydro- 

 phobia for the purpose of rendering his consti- 

 tution immune to that disease. Aside from the 

 risks of these experiments, the life of the con- 

 demned man would be spared. In case the ex- 

 periments should succeed and, in point of fact, 

 I am sure they would in order to protect so- 

 ciety, which had previously condemned the 

 criminal, he could be kept in custody for the 

 rest of his life. 



"Every condemned man would accept. For 

 the only thing which a condemned man fears 

 is death. 



"This brings me to the question of cholera, 

 which Your Majesty also had the goodness to 

 discuss with me. Neither Doctors Strauss and 

 Roux nor Dr. Koch have succeeded in infect- 

 ing animals with cholera. Hence there is a 

 great uncertainty regarding the bacillus which 

 Dr. Koch believes to be the cause of cholera. 



