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Show PASTEUR. I . The name of Louis Pasteur will go I down to posterity along witli the names I. of the benefactors of mankind. To this ! 1 ( fame ,,e wil1 iU9tl-v entitled, for well has he earned' it. For the last few days f his name has been prominently before the ; 1 country on account of the sending of '. a number of children to Paris to I be treated by him for hydrophobia. I Pasteur says he can cure these unfortu- I ; nate ones, and Pasteur, although a san- ; guine and enthusiastic man, is not a visionary nor one given to raising false . f hopes. When he differed from Liebeg as t i to the causes of fermentat ion he demon- i t; strated his position by actual experiment l',' I and did not confine himself to mere j i argument and refutation. When I i f.' he announced to the Aoademie- des ' i ;f Sciences that lie had discovered j a cure for splenic fever he was prepared f f . to prove his assertion. ' Invited to Melun i S to demonstrate what he had asserted at ! j T Paris, he aunounced, on his arrival at Melun, that he would take fifty head of : sheep and would kill twenty-five of them ' " by innoculating them with the blood of a sheep that had died of 6plenic fever, ' and that the other twenty-five would ! not die from this innoculation, ' where the innoculation was made after he J had treated the sheep that would not L die. He merely vaccinated these sheep ! j with some virus which he had greatly at- . i tenuated by cultivation, and the result . was as lie predicted. For the past few 'I K ' . ' I years he lias paid great attention to hydrophobia, hy-drophobia, but at the time his son-in-law wrote his life, w hich has been translated into English by Lady JClaude Hamilton, under the supervision of Prof. Tyndall,who undertook the supervision at the request of Pasteur, he had not succeeded in cultivating cul-tivating the microbe of hydrophobia. His announcement that" he can cure hydrophobia makes it cer-that cer-that he has succeeded in cultivating cultivat-ing this microbe, and such being the case, he naturally feels the same confidence con-fidence that he did in regard to curing splenic fever. If he can cure hydrophobia, hydropho-bia, then he will have caused a great terror ter-ror to mankind to vanish. Pasteur is now in his sixty-fourth year, but, his health is not particularly good, he having received a stroke of paralysis in 1868. " |
