PASTEUR'S SHEPHERD BOY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

PASTEUR'S SHEPHERD BOY.

The death has taken place at Joinville, Le Pont of Jupille, known as Pasteur's shepherd boy, whose recovery from rabies in 1885 was the means of proclaiming to mankind Pasteur's victory over the dread scourge which had hitherto baffled all attacks of science. Before he treated Jupille Pasteur had already cured another boy of rabies, but it was not until he had repeated his success with Jupille that his discovery - as accepted as an established fact. Jupille's story is commemorated in a monument to Pasteur, which shows the shepherd boy struggling, with a mad dog. He was tending his sheep on a mountain with four youthful companions when a mad dog attacked the group, but Jupille saved the lother children from injury by struggling with the animal until at length he was able to bind it with his whip and beat it to death with 'hit! sabot. But he had been terribly bitten, and his life was despaired of until Pasteur confidently declared that ha could cure him. The great scientist kept his word, and for many years afterwards the heroic shepherd was employed in the Pasteur Institute,