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ease over which the finest brains in the medical 

 profession have laboured in vain?' 



"Quis novus hie nostris successit sedibus 

 hospesf 



"For my part, I knew only too well the bril- 

 liance of your genius, the scrupulous care of 

 your inductions, and your absolute honesty, to 

 share such opinions for a moment. My confi- 

 dence has been amply justified by the results, 

 because, with the insignificant exception of a 

 few ignorant persons, the whole world now rec- 

 ognises the greatness of your victory over this 

 terrible malady. You have furnished a method 

 of diagnosis which puts an end, beyond ques- 

 tion, to the torturing uncertainty which for- 

 merly haunted anyone who had been bitten by 

 a dog which, although healthy, was suspected 

 of being mad. This alone would have sufficed 

 to assure you the eternal gratitude of humanity. 



"But through your marvellous system of in- 

 oculations against hydrophobia you have suc- 

 ceeded in following up the poison after its en- 

 try into the system and have vanquished it. 



