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ledge and more enlightened judgment in the course of their 
professional labors. 
Fully satisfied of the importance which attaches to the wide 
dissemination of a knowledge of these discoveries, we shall con¬ 
tinue to pursue the same course in the future, being quite assured 
that every veterinarian, equally with every physician, entitled to 
the designation of sanitarian, will fully appreciate the value and 
wisely avail himself of the benefits of the information placed at 
his disposal in the columns of the Review. 
M. PASTEUR’S RECENT DISCOVERIES. 
“At this very moment experiments [upon the prevention of hydrophobia] are 
under full headway. Biting dogs and bitten dogs fill the laboratory. Without 
reckoning the hundreds of dogs which within three years have died mad in the 
laboratory, there is not a case discovered in Paris of which Pasteur is not notified. 
‘ A poodle and a bull-dog [bouledogue] in the height of an attack; come! ’ was a 
telegram sent to him recently. Pasteur went. The two dogs were rabid ‘ au 
dernier point ,’ and it was only after some time and no small trouble that they 
were bound securely to a table. M. Pasteur then bent over the frothing head of 
the bull-dog, and sucked into a pipette a few drops of saliva. Our author re¬ 
marks, in conclusion, that Pasteur never appeared to him so great as in the cellar 
where this took place, and while this * tete-a-tete formidable'’ was being enacted.” 
These few lines which we extract from the excellent book 
“ Histoire d’un savant par un ignorant,” tell more about the work 
which is being carried on by M. Pasteur, than any one could im¬ 
agine. It is showing the constant danger to which this wonderful 
investigator, as well as his assistants, are exposed. But a short 
time it was the series of researches on anthrax, an affection whose 
name alone makes one think of certain death ; later on it was 
glanders and nowit is rabies. We publish in this issue one of the 
last communications on that subject, presented to the Academy 
of Sciences, as is customary for M. Pasteur to do when he desires 
to have the result of his experiments confirmed by authorities 
whose verdict is conclusive, wherein he asks for the appointment 
of a commission to witness and control some of his experiments 
relating to the prophylaxy and perhaps the curative treatment of 
hydrophobia. This was granted, the following eminent gentle, 
men being appointed: Dr. Beclard, Permanent Secretary of 
