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years old, an Alsatian, named Joseph Meister, 

 who had been seriously bitten by a mad dog on 

 the 6th of July, 1885. He had fourteen wounds, 

 and was in a lamentable state. The treatment 

 began with the injection of the least virulent 

 vaccine obtained from infected marrow four- 

 teen days old. The child stood it admirably, 

 but Pasteur became anxious, distressed to the 

 point of sleeplessness, when it became necessary 

 to pass on to the virulent vaccines. How would 

 the young patient respond to them? He stood 

 them all without any apparent trouble, and two 

 months from the time that he was first attacked 

 not a sign of hydrophobia had developed. Nor 

 did young Meister subsequently ever show any 

 symptom of it. 



Then came another lad, who had played the 

 part of hero, a young shepherd by the name of 

 J. B. Jupille, who successfully underwent the 

 second treatment for hydrophobia. This boy, 

 fifteen years of age, had fought with a mad dog 

 on the lands of Villers-Farlay, in the Jura, in 

 order to save his comrades, five other young 



