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PASTEUR Louis (1822-1895)

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PASTEUR Louis (1822-1895)
L.A.S. "L. Pasteur," Paris April 3, 1888, to a colleague| 1 page in-8 (small tear at upper right corner).
On the death of a soldier with rabies.
He deplores the death of Private Marinot, "the first, as you say, of the great number of bitten soldiers we have treated. A few days after his treatment, it seems, he suffered in the arm injured in the corresponding hand. We did not know anything about it. As his death did not come until much later, a new treatment could have been applied to him then and everything leads us to believe that he would have been saved. We have examples of this recovery in similar conditions and with full success"...