As to the method of M. Pasteur for caring those
who have been bitten, the evidence is, as we have said, extremely un- oertain, and there seems very little doubt that in the case of one or two patients on whom M. Pasteur pursued what he -called his "intensive" method of cure, he really caused the death which he intended to prevent, and which the English Commission think that, in a very considerable number of cases, be really- did prevent. We confess-plainly that we would much rather have been left without a " protective inoculation" even far this terrible disease, than see the passion for all sorts of -dreadful experiments on living animals stimulated, as we believe that it will be stimulated, by this. Report. The prospects of our poor relations, considered as subjects for experiment, have been frightfully darkened by the apparent triumph of Id. Pasteur.
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