[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR, — I "do not
hope to convert" Dr. Edward Jessop to a more rational view of M. Pasteur's imagined discovery for the prevention of hydrophobia ; but I should like to ask how it comes to pass that the faith of M. Pasteur's followers in his prophylactic should be so mach greater than his own. For how explain the fact that M. Pasteur impresses upon all who go to him for treatment, the necessity of first having their wounds cauterised, if he honestly believed it was his own treatment that saved them from hydrophobia P To have recourse invariably to two such widely different methods of treatment as cauterisation and inoculation, and to ascribe as invariably the results to the inoculations rather than -to the cauterisation, is not the least of the many incon- sistencies that from the first have characterised M. Pasteur's
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