Joseph Meister

Joseph Meister (c. 1876 - 1940) was saved as a boy from rabies by Louis Pasteur and later served as a caretaker at the Pasteur Institute.

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1876 - 1940 - Rabies - Louis Pasteur - Caretaker - Pasteur Institute

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In 1885, the nine-year-old Meister was bitten by a rabid dog. Pasteur decided to treat the boy with a rabies virus grown in rabbits and weakened by drying, a treatment he had earlier tried on dogs. The treatment was successful and the boy did not develop rabies.

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When Meister, then 64-years-old, was unable to prevent the Wehrmacht from entering Pasteur?s crypt in 1940, he went home, took out his World War I service revolver and shot himself.

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Wehrmacht - Crypt - 1940 - World War I - Revolver

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