THE CRUEL VIVISECTOR, 
PASTEUR. OF PARIS. 
[Summer of 1893.] 
STATEMENT OF AN EYE-WITNESS. 
PHILIP Q. PEABODY, A. n., LI. B., 
Member of the flassachusetts Bar, Boston. 
PUBLISHED by 
The Illinois Branch of the American Anti-vivisection Society. 
For the Protection of Animal? from Cruel Experiments in Medical Colleges and elsewhere, 
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Please communicate with the Illinois Branch without delay. One of the Most Awful Phases of Vivisection. 
Pasteur’s Present Work 
[Summer of 1893.] 
Detailed by an Eye=Witness. 
We earnestly request a careful reading of the following pages, 
especially by those who defend the Pasteurian method as neces- 
sary and right. The writer is Philip G. Peabody, Esq., Counselor- 
at-Law, Boston, who has given much time to the investigation of 
“physiological research,” and who is an acknowledged authority 
on matters pertaining thereto. In his visits to the laboratories 
of M. Pasteur, Mr. Peabody was accompanied by the well-known 
Dr. Geo. Baudry, of Fond du Lac, Wis. (whose certificate is ap- 
pended to this paper), and Mr. Arthur Westcott, of London. Mr. 
Westcott, besides being one of England’s most profound students 
of Pasteurism, is also one of her most effective orators. We give 
the account in Mr. Peabody’s own words : 
On three separate occasions, I visited and was politely, care- 
fully and thoroughly shown about the “ Institut Pasteur;” the 3 
first occasion was on May 20, 1893. The Institute located at 
No. 45 Rue Dutot. is one of at least five of Pasteur’s vivisecting 
establishments—according to a recent authority—all located in 
or near Paris ; the others being in Rue d’Ulm, Rue Vauquelin, 
Montmartre and St. Cloud. The only one mentioned here from 
the writer’s personal knowledge is that at No. 45 Rue Dutot, 
which he visited, in company with several friends, on May 20, as 
stated, May 22 and June 12. 
On the morning of May 20, I first called at the “ Institut 
Pasteur,” No. 45 Rue Dutot, about 9:30. The inoculations be- 
gan at 10:30. The garden surrounding the buildings, the porch, 
the seats, the large waiting room, although not crowded at that 
early hour, contained nevertheless, it seemed to us, fully two 
hundred people. BeforS the hour for inoculating arrived the 
number of human victims had greatly increased. 
On being ushered into one of a number of small rooms, 
we seated ourselves, and shortly two young men took their sta- 
tion at a small table containing a few bottles, etc. The victims 
of the vast army of frightful rabid dogs, wolves, horses and oth- 
er animals with which we are told the streets of Paris are crowd- 
ed, formed in a line before the operator, who sat near this table. 
Each one was aided in disrobing, and was held by a third at- 
tendant. The second attendant simply filled the syringes and 
passed them to the operator, receiving the empty syringes to be 
filled in turn. 
We timed this process with great care and accuracy. Each 
victim, as a rule, receives two inoculations daily for a period of 
fourteen days. Each man received the attention of the operator 
for exactly ten seconds —in which time he received his two inoc- 
ulations in the abdomen. Exactly five seconds was lost in mov- 
ing one man away and another up to take his place, so that, al- 
though the two inoculations were made in exactly ten seconds, 
it took just fifteen seconds to dispose of each man, woman and 
child. The whole thing is done with such extreme haste and 4 
slovenliness that on at least one occasion in the fifteen minutes 
we were in this room, the assistant, whose sole duty consisted in 
receiving, filling and returning the syringe, and who did this with 
an expertness born probably of tens of thousands of repetitions, 
actually dropped a syringe on the floor, such was his haste in 
“grabbing1' it (no other word will describe the movement) and 
instantly seized another one lying by. To have stopped to pick 
up the one which dropped would have delayed the movement of 
the operator and the line of patients. 
Frightened men, terrified women and screaming babies and 
children, many of whom could hardly escape being frightened 
into sickness or convulsions, formed the principal part of this vile 
and awful business. Frequently victims are barely able to walk 
after being treated. • 
Two days later, May 22. we were shown again to the opera- 
ting room and throughout the laboratories (located in various 
buildings) and cages and sheds, where are kept the vast collec- 
tions of living animals whose torture gives such a profitable 
pastime to M. Pasteur and the other persons who spend their 
time at this hellish work. A considerable number of buildings 
is required to hold them. In one room we counted about six 
hundred living animals, every one of which had that frightful, 
inoculated disease, more awful even th m hydrophobia, known as 
rabies, or “hydrophobia of the laboratory." This also is the ex- 
act disease known and proved beyond doubt to have been given 
by this atrocious system of treatment to two hundred and forty- 
three persons, in every one of whom it caused death in one of 
the most agonizing forms known. Their names, and to some ex- 
tent their history is known and accessible. It is because of these 
two hundred and forty-three deaths that Pasteur has been fri ght- 
ened into abandoning his inoculations of virus of dogs and com- 
pelled to entirely forego that method of treatment. 
We were told that, the supply ot animals in Pasteur's labor- 
atory was very small—simply enough to last from day to day. 5 
We saw and counted about one thousand, including monkeys, 
dogs, rabbits, mice, rats, pigeons, guinea pigs, chickens, horses 
and cats. Every one of these animals is kept alive through all 
the agonies of rabies. 
Extreme carelessness in regard to the escape of maddened an- 
imals is manifest in more ways than one. Many cages were not 
covered ; many actually had no covers. One attendant said it 
was “of no consequence." He confessed that cats were never 
caged or restrained in any way. When rabid from having hydro- 
phobia inoculated into their veins, they are allowed to run at 
large throughout the city of Paris and the “pleasant land of 
France." They are thus absolutely unrestrained, to bite human 
and other animals, and to progagate their species, already, before 
birth, cursed with the most awful disease known. 
Could anything more infinitely atrocious be conceived than 
this ? What can the people of France be dreaming of to allow 
this monstrous charlatan, Pasteur to deliberately poison and 
infect the blood of their domestic animals in this way ? 
Again on June 12, we visited this frightful place. Each time 
we saw the throng of ignorant human wretches awaiting their 
turn. We acquired a very large amount of information, of which 
we have made a careful record, and which will perhaps be of 
value at some future day, when the increasing intelligence of 
men shall prepare them to learn the truth and drive from our 
midst the vile institutions which we are now asked to perpetuate, 
both by money and influence; and as surely as the sun rises 
that day will come. 
I have in my possession a carefully compiled and verified 
statement giving the names of two hundred and forty-three 
persons who have died from the hydrophobia produced by these 
inoculations. The question arises, how happens it that only 
this number of deaths has been recorded ? It being well known 
that inoculation with this virus is almost certainly fatal. A scientific friend in England has recently answered this 
question, with the aid of one of Pasteur's trusted servants, and 
his conclusion seems to be verified by experience. The explan- 
ation is that virus of rabies is no longer injected into human 
beings ; it was originally done, and as it so inevitably resulted 
in producing the disease, the method was long ago abandoned ; 
so, the frightened wretches who now apply for inoculation are, 
it is believed, soothed by having a harmless spoonful of pure, or 
(to use a scientific but meaningless term, dear to the soul of the 
Pasteurites) “sterilized” water, colored with milk, injected into 
their veins. 
6 
It was confessed to us by the very intelligent officer of the 
Institute, who acted as our guide, that any one who had been 
licked or bitten by any dog or other animal was inoculated 
without charge. The manifest impossibility of there being so 
many men as claimed bitten daily by rabid dogs, shows the ab- 
surdity of the whole thing. Assume, for purposes of argument, 
that two hundred people are inoculated daily (a moderate esti- 
mate); as they are inoculated fourteen day°, that would make 
about fifteen new patients daily treated for rabies. If one-fourth of 
the persons bitten applied for treatment, this would mean that 
sixty persons were bitten daily. It is, of course, absurd to claim 
that any such number of persons is daily bitten in or near Paris, 
or even in the known world, by mad dogs. 
It is absolutely certain, even if our guide had not confessed 
it, that nearly all of the persons who are inoculated at the 
Pasteur Institute are either bitten by harmless dogs or are not 
bitten at all. Reliable statistics showed not long ago that an in- 
dividual was one hundred times more likely to be struck by light- 
ning in the street, than to be bitten by a mad dog, and only one 
person in twenty actually bitten by a mad dog dies of rabies. 
Hundreds of animals are inoculated in the eyes with rabic 
virus; even from the standpoint of the operators this is wholly 
an unnecessary cruelty. The only merit claimed for it is that the progress of the disease may be more readily observed. The 
eyes are converted into putrid ulcers—sloughing, or to use a plain- 
er word, “rotting1' out of the head. Some of the animals live thus 
for weeks, undergoing in addition to the ordinary agony of arti- 
ficial rabies, which is worse, be it remembered, than the natural 
disease, the inconceivable suffering of this further torment. Some- 
times after ten days they are mercifully released by death. 
To repeat that all this is useless is to insult the intelligence 
of my readers. Pasteur has so notoriously given this terrible dis- 
ease to many people, that he dared not continue his course. 
Every leading scientist of England and the continent, worthy 
of the name, condemns his treatment. Fear of them, especially 
of Virchow, Peter and Lutaud, and of Dulles of America, whose 
services in this cause must not be forgotten, has driven him to 
his present humbug of using a placebo, and for the present, human 
beings are safe from him (but not from other vivisectorss). But 
should this villain be allowed to torture dogs, horses, monkeys, 
cats and other animals absolutely innumerable, simply to delude 
the public for his own aggrandizement? A little more light, a 
little more sense, and this prince of swindlers will form 
another of the world’s shattered idols. Koch has had his down- 
fall; Brown-Sequard, his; and Pasteur will soon follow. A trio 
of more cruel, ignorant, insolent braggarts this generation has 
not seen. More pretentious, more truthless, more heartless de- 
ceptions than theirs, this world has not experienced. 
PHILIP G. PEABODY. 
I approve of, and vouch for, the foregoing article. 
George Baudry, M. D. 
Ossipee, N. H., July 24, 1893. PUSL1SHED BY 
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