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shepherds. He had been badly bitten in the 

 struggle, and his case was more serious than 

 that of Meister, because a whole week had 

 passed between the day on which he had re- 

 ceived his wounds and that on which he could 

 be inoculated. Like the first patient, he re- 

 ceived the hypodermic from Dr. Grancher, with 

 the assistance of Vulpian, on Tuesday, October 

 29th, 1885; and, after a series of injections of 

 vaccines, he was immune to hydrophobia. 



It was at the meeting of the Academy of Sci- 

 ences, held October 26th, 1885, that Pasteur 

 made his communication on the subject of hy- 

 drophobia, preventive vaccination and vaccina- 

 tion after bites, as applied to men. Dr. Vulpian 

 responded and paid homage to the genius of 

 Pasteur: 



"The Academy will not be surprised if, as a 

 member of the section of medicine and surgery, 

 I ask the floor in order to express the senti- 

 ments of admiration inspired in me by the com- 

 munication of M. Pasteur. These will be 



