We are glad to see that Sir Henry Roscoe has
asked Mr. Chamberlain, as head of the Local Government Board, to make some inquiry into the facts concerning M. Pasteur's muchaauded inoculation for hydrophobia. We really want some scientific light on these facts. As a letter published in another column shows, the case of cure most relied on by M. Pasterur is, in the opinion of the veterinary surgeon who treated the dog which inflicted the bite, absolutely without value. The dog, in his opinion, had none of the symptoms of madness, except a diseased appetite, more often due to violent indigestion than to any other cause. We are disposed to believe that all M. Pasteur's boasted cures are of the same kind. And it is certainly an open question whether the one patient who died after his inoculation, died of the original bite or of M. Pasteur's inoculation.
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