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  1. Joseph Meister (21 February 1876 – 24 June 1940) was the first person to be inoculated against rabies by Louis Pasteur, and likely the first person to be successfully treated for the infection, which has a >99% fatality rate once symptoms set in.

  2. On June 24, 1940, 10 days after the German army conquered Paris, a 64-year-old Meister took his own life. For many years, the popular legend of Meister’s death was that he committed suicide...

  3. For nine-year-old Joseph had been bitten in 14 places by a huge, mad dog and in a desperate attempt to cheat death, his mother had fled from their home town in Alsace to Paris. Early in the...

  4. Jul 23, 2020 · Many years later, near the end of his life, Pasteur was asked what epitaph he would like engraved on his tombstone, and out of all of his mountainous accomplishments as the pioneer of immunology, he chose three simple words: Joseph Meister lived.

  5. Sep 28, 2015 · Through these headlines the news made it to Joseph Meister’s parents who rushed to Paris with their boy to look for Pasteur. After several dozen injections and a month of waiting, Louis Pasteur was sure that Joseph had not developed rabies. The two of them stayed in touch as long as they lived.

  6. Feb 1, 2023 · In 1885 Louis Pasteur successfully treated two boys from different parts of rural France, Joseph Meister and Jean-Baptiste Jupille, with his experimental rabies vaccine. Arguing that the boys played an important role in shaping images of Pasteur and his vaccine in French culture, this article reconstructs their long relationships with the ...

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  8. Apr 25, 2017 · Decades later, out of all the epitaphs Pasteur could have chosen, he asked for three words to be etched on his tombstone: JOSEPH MEISTER LIVED! Your greatest legacy can be those who live eternally because you shared Christ with them.

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