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...eight men registered yesterday for the Boylston and Lee Wade speaking competition preliminaries to be held on March 16 in the Fogg Lecture Room, it was announced by F.C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking. Mr. Packard at the same time stated that the preliminaries for the Pasteur Mdeal debate will be held on or around April...
...p.180 of Paul de Kruif's estimable work Microbe Hunters, the author writes of nineteen Russian peasants, moujiks, who went to Paris (after having been badly mangled by a mad wolf) for the Pasteur treatment of rabies. Dr. (?) de Kruif further relates that all but three of these unfortunates were saved, "and all the world raised a paean of thanks" to Pasteur...
...along comes Dr. Axel Munthe, with his equally estimable book The Story of San Michcle and tells us, on p. 67, of the "terrible episode of the six Russian peasants bitten by a pack of mad wolves and sent to the Institut Pasteur." Dr. Munthe continues with his sorry tale of how these six moujiks all became "raving mad" and the "doomed men" were "helped to a painless death" and "all of the newspapers were full of the most ghastly descriptions of the death of the Russian moujiks...
...wolves: 1. Moujiks cured: 16. Moujiks dead: 3. The wolf ran amuck in Smolensk province in March 1886. For two days & two nights it wrandered, at tacking everyone it met. One badly bitten man finally slew the beast with an axe. A Russian physician took the victims to Paris. Pasteur treated 16 of them with a new, intensive treatment (two inoculations daily). The three patients who died were treated by the then ordinary method (one inoculation in several days). The Tsar gave Pasteur a diamond cross of the Order of St. Anne and 100,000 francs for Pasteur Institute...
Beginning in his own stores, Nathan Straus gave spontaneously, individually. His great benefaction was the establishment of world-wide stations which provided pure pasteurized milk at a low cost. Other great philanthropies: food, coal, lodging to Manhattan's destitute during the panic of 1893-94; the first children's tuberculosis preventortum (1909); first Pasteur Institute, first health bureau in Jerusalem; Committee for the Defense of Jews in Poland (of which he was chairman); widespread relief during...