Pasteur's Headquarters in Paris.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 176, 30 October 1886, Page 5 (Supplement)

Pasteur's Headquarters in Paris.

A mo^t extraordinary musuem has juat besgj opened ia Rue Vauguelio, It is difficult tQi gay whether it should beet be called! % rnueeum, or a factory, or a farm, or % menagrie. It is in fact all four combined^ and grouped together for a purpose hither^ untried, and presenting an appearance hitherto unpfwalled. These 'aTe the. v&ytf headquarters of M. Pasteur, and hare are, tfl* be found cow houses, sheep folds fawlC walks, rabbit-hutches, and dog kenaeiai;, They are all, moreover, fully occupied. On one floor is a laboratory, where tho* vaccine soups and preparations are raadft up. Above it a museum, where specimen^ connected with the new cure are exhibited There are operating rooms and rooms fjcu5> post-mortem investigations and dissecting purposes. Two of the kennela devotrQqt to dogs in various interesting stages Qj| early or advanced rabies, v " Hen choletft** is communicated, watched, and cured in t&Q. fowl- house. The cattle exhibit various* . stages of v»5iccinatioh. , ' ' , - Human beings have also their provide^ quarters. • A spacious waiting-room isa^ft apart for patienfce, who troop, in daily {tk ;pioturesque groups accordinjHf to the Firqucfi* press—^reprewenting , all nationaliti«e^V4v^ the mean, time the great Vavaht ooQapieai ', , the former quarters of the Pasteur iQetitu^t.^ in the 'Rue d't P^ m j ' and /.deyote^ffiiiwwlf i -in -i dignified * rBecl'usion^to'ysoieSitifi^'^S&s'