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against disease and death. Close by, at La
Bagatelle, in the elegant dog-cemetery founded by Sir
Richard Wallace, lay buried hundreds of lap-dogs
and drawing-room dogs, with the records of their
useless and luxurious lives inscribed by loving
hands on the marble crosses over their graves.
Then came the terrible episode of the six
Russian peasants bitten by a pack of mad wolves
and sent to the Institut Pasteur at the expenses
of the Tzar. They were all horribly mauled in
the face and hands and their chances from the
outset were almost nil. Moreover it was known
even then that hydrophobia in wolves was far
more dangerous than in dogs and that those
bitten in the face were almost certain to die.
Pasteur knew this better than anybody, and
hadn’t he been the man he was, he would no
doubt have declined to take them in hand. They
were placed in a separate ward in the Hôtel Dieu in
the charge of Professor Tillaux, the most eminent
and the most humane surgeon in Paris in those
days and a staunch supporter and great friend
of Pasteur’s. Pasteur came himself every
morning with Tillaux to inoculate them, watching
them anxiously from day to day. Nobody could
understand a word they said. One afternoon,
it was on the ninth day, I was trying to pour a
drop of milk down the lacerated throat of one of
the moujiks, a giant whose whole face had almost
been torn away, when suddenly something wild
and uncanny flashed in his eyes, the muscles of
the jaws contracted and opened spasmodically
with a snapping sound and a ghastly cry I had
never heard before either from man or animal
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