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Show Pasteur's Discovery. Dr. Ferran was an unknown experimentalist experiment-alist and only that by his own showing. That he ever successfully inoculated to prevent the patient having the cholera, the medical world does not now believe. Indeed, one American physician disguised himself and thus secured an oneration bv Ferran, which the latter had refused the applicant when he presented himself as a physician. The investigator hastened to his rooms, took out the substance placed beneath his skin, and analyzing it, found it to consist of a simple, well known and harmless substance. He prononnced Ferran to be a fraud, and the charge remains re-mains to this date undenied. But Pasteur is a very different man. . He is an investigator inves-tigator for love of science. He has not, like Ferran, made his discoveries means for gain. He has not concealed from the world of science the methods by which he works, nor the results of his labors. All that he has learned he has given for rhe benefit of his fellow men. Medical research is to him a delight, and not a mere commercial matter. So, when it is announced that he has at last succeeded in proving that his theory of inoculation for prevention and cure of hydrophobia, the scientific world received the news with confidence and without a shadow of suspicion that the great experimentalist is putting forward a theory not fortified by actual demonstration. It is stated that he has cured two boys of hydrophobia hydropho-bia by inoculating them with the spinal marrow of rabbits which had . been first innoculated with matter from the spine of a rabid dog. tAssuming that the news is correctly transmitted, the discovery will take rank among the greatest known in history of medicine, and will probably lead to other advance steps in the line of cure and prevention, that will prove of inestimable benefit to the human family. Sacramento Record-Union. |