PREVENTIVE TREATMENT 



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4. Very Grave Cases. 

 Same treatment as 3, and in addition. 



Day of Days of Drying Day of Days of Drying 



Treatment. of Cord. Treatment. of Cord. 



23 ... 5 25 . . (J dose) 3 



24 ... 4 26 . (full dose) 3 



Furious criticism, unbelief, and flagrant mis- 

 statement of facts began at once, and lasted more 

 than two years. Of Pasteur's opponents, the chief 

 was M. Peter, who besought the Academie des 

 Sciences, about once a week, that they should close 

 Pasteur's laboratory, because he was not prevent- 

 ing hydrophobia but producing it. The value of 

 M. Peter's judgment may be estimated by what he 

 had said, a few years earlier, about bacteriology in 

 general — " I do not much believe in that invasion 

 of parasites which threatens us like an eleventh 

 plague of Egypt. After so many laborious 

 researches, nothing will be changed in medicine, 

 there will only be a few more microbes. M. 

 Pasteur's excuse is that he is a chemist, who has 

 tried, out of a wish to be useful, to reform medicine, 

 to which he is a complete stranger." 



But it does not matter what was said seventeen 

 years ago. In England, the Report of the 1886 

 Committee, and the Mansion House meeting in 

 July 1889, mark the decline and fall of all intelligent 

 opposition to the work. Among so many thousand 

 cases, during so many years, it would be a miracle 

 indeed if not a single case had failed or gone 

 amiss ; but we are concerned here with the thou- 



