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SPE

CTION FOR HONGKON

THE MAD DOG

HERO

"Mthe little village in the Alsace

AD dog!" The cry rang through

district of France. But the warning came too late. Nine-year-old Joseph Meister was on his way to school when the big dog came at him.

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Joseph tried his best to fend off the brute but he might as well have tried to fight a tiger. The dog snapped and snarled, and bit at Joseph's hands, his legs and his body.

By the time a workman had run up and beaten off the crazed animal Joseph was bleeding from more than a dozen wounds.

The workman gathered the boy up and carried him gently to a doctor's leav- ing the dog to be destroyed, shot by its owner, the village grocer.

He was going to try his cure on himself-then along came the wounded Joseph

Louis Pasteur

of

He rushed to the rescue, beating off the dog

While the doctor tended the Pasteur. "Can you save

mik my the experimental animals, mice, the inventor of the method by discovered how to keep boy a vet confirmed that the dog boy?" begged "Madame Meister. rabbits and guinea-pigs.

which milk is rendered harm- wine and other liquids fresh: by was suffering from the frightful Pasteur did not know. It was Pasteur's mood veered · „be-·less of any disease germs: it beating them for a time and - disease known. as rabies or true: that he had had some tween tape and despair. may contain.

this led to pasteurization. hydrophobia.

success with the vaccine on "Perhaps one of the great And this again

He discovered methods, of was only dogs. After vaccination by him medical events of the century another

Louis Pasteur's sterilising hospital instruments This is a disease that animals dogs bitten by mad dogs had is going to take place." he gifts to the world. The son of to be used in operations. * (At can pass on to humans if they been .immume from bite them, a disease that brings phobia.

hydro- wrote. But he lay awake at a sergeant in Napoleon's army, this time many patients died But the vaccine had nights worrying.

Pasteur started as a chemist. due to germs on surgear's a spasm in the throat muscles, never been tried on a human. Ten days passed and the His work at this time--done struments). choking and finally a delirium ending in death.

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place.

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"Louis to humans).

time had come to find whether he had succeeded or a professor of chemistry at a He saved, the French silk In those days-the year was

not. He gave the boy an in- university --was mainly on industry from ruin by his in Vaccination was still a new jection of virus which he knew theoretical problems. But when vestigation into a diseize killing 1885 there was no cure idea; many scientists thought it would give a rabbit rabies he was asked: "What is the silkworms. He found that it known. There seemed little could not work or "was too within a week.

point of pure scientific research, was caused by microbes passing chance for the badly-savaged dangerous to use on humans. Nothing happened. The boy Where is its use?" he would on infection and found a way Joseph-nothing to be done Even Pasteur's closest associate went on playing with the retort: "What use is a new to prevent the silkworm eggs except wait for the symptoms to in his laboratories was against animals. He was cured. A great bom baby?TM

being infected. appear in 40 or 50 days.

trying out the rabies vaccine medical event had indeed taken And then came more prac- He stamped out an epidemic But the doctor had an idea,

tical work on behalf of French among poultry by finding & "There's just one faint hope,' asteur had just decided to

industries. It began when a vaccine that immundiced he told Joseph's mother cau- try it out on himself, make Up to his neck manufacturer who made indus- chickens against the disease. ... tiously. "Louis Pasteur." himself the guinea-pig in the

trial' alcohol' from sugar beet

Then be found a vaksine Pasteur, then 63 years old, best traditions of science! But And as the story

spread came to him with a problem. that immunised sheep from was not a doctor, but a scientist. now there was no time for patients began to be sent to Pasteur took his microscope anthrax (another -disease that The doctor knew that Pasteur tests and experiments. Here Pasteur by doctors all over into the factory, began the first can be passed on by animals had been experimenting with was a boy who would probably Europe and from beyond, from study of fermentation, the treatment of hydrophobia dié if nothing was done. Russia and even America. He is up to his neck in beet juice,"

This led inevitably to by a vaccine taken from rabbits. Pasteur had once seen a child had to set

full scale wrote UD. a

pearch into inicrobes that And so Joseph, his mother die of hydrophobia after being hydrophobia service. It cured

carried infection to - Žena. and the dog's owner, made the savaged by a wolf. It had hap thousands.... .nearly 2,500 in

Vaccination · ́against", smallpox journey to Paris and to pened when Pasteur himself the first 15 months alone.

was already known; it consisted was a boy but he had never Today, due to Pasteur's dis- But · Pasteur's discoveries of giving patients a dose of a forgotten. The horror was covery, rabies, is rare and vir- about: fermentation and the mild

of smallpox form etched on his mind. He called tually unknown in most action of years, as a result, eommon in cattle and knewa in a scientist of the Govern- civilised countries.

were to revolutionise industries as cowpGI. ment rabies commission.

From grateful patients and all over the world brewing: In 1863 a cerebral hemorr The man confirmed: "The well wishers Ell. over the the baking of bread, vinegar hage left Pasteur with his left boy will almost certainly die world came gifts of money making and others.

arm and leg paralysed. He still- if nothing is done. Try your and in 1888 Pasteur founded Pasteur's discovery that went on working until, wórn in Paris a great research centre living máuro-organisms are re- out. by his work, he died in So Pasteur put some of his called the Pasteur Institute. sponsible for fermentation led 1899.

Stephen Paget, a there

great vaccine into a hypodermic and Today

scores of to his discovery that they are ате } injected it into the boy's Pasteur Institutes throughout, also responsible in the form English surgeon of Paster's

side....

the world.

of germs, for disease.

this tribute time, paid him Days passed. Another injec→ Pasteur's: name lives on also Ha began a study, c: micro-. "He was the most perfect inân

entered tion every day. The boy played in the word "Pasteurised" on biology. Discoveries in this field who has ever happily in the, laboratories with a milk bottle top. For he was were many and important.. He kingdom of science.”

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Worn out

Three-Wheelers Still Roll

THREE WHEEL AUTOMOBILES HAVE POPPED UP REGULARLY SINCE THE FIRST CARS WERE BUILT: THE SINGLE WHEEL, WHETHER.

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