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In short, they had died not from a dog's bite, but from 

 the virus injected into their bodies by M. Pasteur's 

 hypodermic syringe! In support of this terrible 

 charge, Professor Peter produced a mass of incontro- 

 vertible evidence which Pasteur's supporters have never 

 attempted seriously to question. 



"Professor Colin, of the French veterinary school at 

 Alfort, criticised the Pasteurian statistics, pointing out 

 that the certificates produced by the patients were worth 

 nothing, having been drawn up by incompetent peo- 

 ple, and that the post mortem examinations of the 

 dogs were equally valueless, as they afford no certain 

 evidence of rabies. He considered that the only way 

 of arriving at a conclusion is by the prolonged observa- 

 tion of the animal, which should be shut up and kept 

 till the characteristic symptoms of rabies declare them- 

 selves. 



"Professor Billroth declared the Pasteurian system 

 of treatment to be a fiasco, and Professor Van Frisch, 

 of Vienna, made the following statement in his exhaus- 

 tive report upon Pasteur's treatment: 'Babbits and 

 dogs which, without preceding infection, were subjected 

 to the last mentioned strengthened inoculation for hu- 

 man beings, were infected with rabies through that 

 inoculation. Hence it may be inferred with great prob- 

 ability, that this method of inoculation may likewise be 

 seriously dangerous to man.' 



"Dr. Lutand, of Paris, condemned the Pasteurian 

 antirabic treatment as not only ineffectual, but also 

 dangerous, and cited the case of the postman, Eascol, 

 in proof of this assertion. On the 28th of February, 



