Pastonr's Headquarters.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 168, 4 September 1886, Page 2

Pastonr's Headquarters.

A mosx extraordinary museum ban just been opened in the Rue Vauguehn, It is difficult to say w hether it should best bo a museum, or,* -^acto^fe, or a farm, or> menagerie. It %in fSfitpM Jour combined and-gro'uped together for hitherto untried, and presenting ati^appear ance hitherto unparalleled. ; Theaoare the new headquarter* of M. Paeteur, and hero are to be found . cow-houses, cheep folds t fowl walks, rabbit hutcbes and dog kennels. They are al!, moreover, fully occupied A ~ On the'floor* iararlaboratory^where the vaccine soups and preparations are made up. Above it is a museum, where specimens connected with tbe new cure are exhibited. T 'Thereof c operating rooms, and rooms for post-mortem investigations and dissecting purposes. ' Two of the kennels are devoted to doge in various interesting stages of early or advanced rabies. " Hen cholera " ie communicated, watched and cured in the fowlhouee. The cattle exhibit various stages of vaccination. Human beings have 'also 'their provided quarter. A spacious waiting-room is Beb apatft for patients, who troop in daily fat pictu resque ( groups' —according 'to, thoi French' pWs — representing all; nationalities. - ,; In the meantime the great, pavant occupies the former quarters' of the Pasteur Institu^ in, the' Bue.'d'JCJlm; and devotes himself in dignified seclusion to scientific research. „- „ M » , • ,