Rabid by Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy

Author:Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy [Wasik, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781101583746
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2012-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

Shortly afterward, Pasteur left Paris for a much-needed rest and relied upon frequent updates from the physicians still monitoring Meister to reassure him of his successful treatment. On August 3, Pasteur wrote to his son from Arbois, “Very good news last night of the bitten lad. I am looking forward with great hopes to the time when I can draw a conclusion. It will be thirty-one days tomorrow since he was bitten.”

As more weeks passed and Meister remained free from rabies symptoms, Pasteur began to share the news of his success with close associates. One of these, Léon Say, leaked the story to the Journal des Débats, and soon the world began tentatively cheering the news. After Pasteur returned to Paris in the early fall of 1885, he made a statement to the Académie des Sciences describing the treatment received by Meister. More than three months had passed since the child suffered his terrifying bite wounds, and still he appeared healthy. The details of the case were outlined for the academy. Dr. Vulpian rose first to respond:

Hydrophobia, that dread disease against which all therapeutic measures had hitherto failed, has at last found a remedy. M. Pasteur, who has been preceded by no one on this path, has been led by a series of investigations unceasingly carried on for several years, to create a method of treatment by means of which the development of hydrophobia can infallibly be prevented in a patient recently bitten by a rabid dog. I say infallibly, because, after what I have seen at M. Pasteur’s laboratory, I do not doubt the constant success of this treatment when it is put into full practice a few days only after a rabic bite.

It is now necessary to see about organizing an installation for the treatment of hydrophobia by M. Pasteur’s method. Every person bitten by a rabid dog must be given the opportunity of benefiting from this great discovery, which will seal the fame of our illustrious colleague and bring glory to our whole country.

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