July 6 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1885
Pasteur's rabies vaccine saves a boy
In Paris, Louis Pasteur inoculates nine-year-old Joseph Meister, bitten by a rabid dog, with his experimental rabies vaccine. The boy lives. It is the first triumph of the germ theory over one of humanity's most dreaded diseases -- and the birth of modern immunology.