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Then Pasteur solved the problem of failed silk crops (diseased silk worms), cholera in chickens, anthrax in cattle and sheep, and, in the mid-1880s, rabies. He recognized that nerve tissue from a rabid dog injected into healthy dogs produced rabies. He then developed a weakened virus (although viruses were then unknown), now termed an attenuated virus, which prevented rabies in …

Originally published in “The Dial, Volume VI” in 1886 At the recent International Medical Congress, held in the city of Copenhagen, among all the men who have distinguished themselves in the cultivation of the sciences pertaining to medicine, the one most signally honored was the subject of this biographical sketch. When he appeared in the public assemblies of the delegates …