Pasteur's Headquarters.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 202, 28 August 1886, Page 5

Pasteur's Headquarters.

A mosT oxtraordinary museum has just been oponed in tho Rue Vauguehn, It is difficult to say whethor it should best be callod n museum, or a factory, or o farm, or a monagerio. It is in fact all four combined ond grouped together for a purpose hitherto untried, and presenting an appear anco hitherto unparalleled. These are the now headquarters of M. Pasteur, and here are to be found cow-houses, theep folds, fowl wolks, rabbit hutches and dog konnols. Thoy ore 011, moreover, fully occupied On the floor is a laboratory, whore the vaccine soups and preparations- are made up. Above it is a museum, where specimens connected with the new cure are exhibited. There are operating rooms, nnd rooms for post-mortem investigations and diesecting purposes. Two of the kennels aro devoted to dogs in various interesting stagoa of early or advanced rabies. "Hen cholera " is communicated, watched and cured in the fowlhouse. The cattle exhibit various stages of vaccination.

Human beings have a'so rheir provided quarter. A spacious waiting-room ia set apart for patients, who troop in daily in picturesque groups—according to the French presß — representing all nationalities, la the meantime tho great savant occupies the former quarters of the Ps.Bteur Institute in tho Rue d'Ulm, and devotes himself in dignified seclusion to scientific research.