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AS was foretold three years ago, by those experienced in its behaviour, rabies is again making itself felt in this country by becoming epidemic. No disease probably has been more misunderstood in the past, none is more clearly known to-day. We are not therefore, as in 1885, caught napping. Since M. Pasteur showed us the whole story of rabies, we have acknowledged the brilliancy of his researches and the most gratifying discovery he made of the way in which the disease may be prevented from developing in any individual unfortunately bitten by a rabid dog. The manner too in which he gradually unfolded one secret of Nature after another, by his extraordinary insight into the phenomena of infectious disease, has been demonstrated with beautiful clearness in the recent Croonian Lecture delivered by Dr. Roux before the Royal Society.
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The Prevention of Hydrophobia. Nature 40, 197–199 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040197a0
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