CHAPTER IX 



THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE 



AFTER the close of the war of 1870 Pas- 

 teur wrote to Emile Duclaux, expressing 

 his great desire to gather all his pupils into one 

 establishment of which he should be the mas- 

 ter, and where they could work together for 

 science and the cure of disease, in accordance 

 with his system and fertile methods. More 

 than twenty years were destined to pass before 

 he saw the realisation of this wish that was so 

 dear to him, and he was not only infirm but 

 almost helpless when he entered the building 

 that was to bear his name. 



Thanks to the movement of universal en- 

 thusiasm aroused by his cure for hydrophobia, 

 an international subscription was opened, upon 

 the initiative of the Academy of Sciences, for 

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