EDITORIAL. 
55 
Dr. Paul Paquin—Dr. Paul Gibier. —We some time 
since called the attention of our readers to the enterprise un¬ 
dertaken by Dr. Paul Paquin in the establishment of his Mis¬ 
souri Vaccine Laboratory for the preparation of prophylac¬ 
tic cultures and principally for that of the culture against an¬ 
thrax, and vve complimented the Doctor by assuring him of our 
best wishes for the success of his undertaking. While we have 
not received positive statistics of the results thus far accom¬ 
plished by the Paquin “ Vaccine” Laboratory, we are justified 
by private correspondence in saying that the institution is 
domg good work, and that very satisfactory results have al¬ 
ready been secured. It would no doubt be of advantage to 
all the parties interested if a system of reports were inaugu¬ 
rated by which the profession might be benefited and enlight¬ 
ened by a knowledge of the success which has followed the 
use of the vaccine. The study of such reports would be of 
special interest to veterinarians in their practice, and would, 
no doubt, tend more than any other cause to induce them to 
test the value of the products of the laboratory. 
Another student of Pasteur and one who is also familiar 
with his mode of preparing cultures, Dr. Paul Gibier, has re¬ 
cently come to our shores, and has opened a second Pasteur 
Institute in New York for the treatment of persons who have 
received injuries by the bites of rabid animals. A report of 
the opening of this new laboratory will be found on another 
page of the present issue, and our knowledge of the ability 
and experience of Director Gibier warrants expression of our 
confidence, that there can be no doubt as to the success of his 
undertaking. Europe may thus far have enjoyed the first 
benefits of the organization of these useful establishments, but 
thanks to the enterprise of these two gentlemen, we may now 
congratulate ourselves upon the fact that we are no longer 
obliged to look to Paris for the protection of our ruminants 
from a disease which has cost our breeders and cattle men so 
immensely, nor to cross the ocean to secure means for the 
rescue of friends, children and kindred from the prospect of a 
earful death by the most horrid of diseases. 
The first bulletin of the Pasteur Institute reads as follows: 
