July 6

On the medical front, it should be noted that on the 6th in 1885, Louis Pasteur successfully tested his rabies vaccine on Joseph Meister[i], a fifteen-year-old kid who had conveniently been bitten by a rabid dog. It is only a vicious rumor, for which there is no credible evidence, that the dog was Pasteur’s pet.

[i] Meister had been born on February 16, 1885; the treatment was successful and Meister lived until June 16, 1940