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own colleagues, he was even accused of having
caused the death of several of his patients with
his serum. He himself went on his way
undaunted by failure, but those who saw him in
those days knew well how much he suffered from
the tortures he had to inflict upon the dogs, for
he was himself a great lover of dogs. He was the
most kind-hearted of men. I once heard him say
that he could never have the courage to shoot a
bird. Everything that could possibly be done to
minimize the sufferings of the laboratory dogs was
done, even the keeper of the kennel at Villeneuve
de l’Étang, an ex-gendarme called Pernier, had
been chosen for his post by Pasteur himself
because he was known as a great lover of dogs.
These kennels contained sixty dogs inoculated
with serum and regularly taken to the kennels in
the old Lycée Rollain for bite tests. In these
kennels were kept forty rabid dogs. The
handling of these dogs, all foaming with rage, was a
very dangerous affair, and I often marvelled at
the courage displayed by everybody. Pasteur
himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to
secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws
of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube
held between his lips draw a few drops of the
deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog,
held on the table by two assistants, their hands
protected by leather gloves. Most of these
laboratory dogs were homeless stray dogs picked
up by the police in the streets of Paris, but many
of them looked as if they had seen better days.
Here they suffered and died in obscurity,
Unknown Soldiers in the battle of the human mind
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