Life, 1909-07-08 · page 19 of 28
Life — July 8, 1909 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("The Idle Rich"):** A humorous illustration of wealthy people broken down on a rural road, needing assistance from farmers. The satire mocks the leisure class's helplessness and dependence on working people—they cannot even repair their own automobiles. **"Bouquets for Pasteur" Section:** This is satirical criticism of Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine (1880s onward). The text quotes American physicians skeptical of rabies's existence, claiming Pasteur created hysteria and unnecessary treatments. The article argues that before Pasteur's "craze," Paris recorded only ~30 rabies cases yearly; afterward, 3,000 people sought his cure. It concludes thousands of dogs were tortured unnecessarily for this "triumph of Science"—the sarcasm targeting both Pasteur and the public's gullible fear-mongering. This represents anti-vaccination sentiment masquerading as scientific criticism. **"Easier Divorce Needed in England":** Reports that England's Lord Gorell recommends cheaper divorce access so poor people can afford it—currently a luxury only the wealthy enjoy.
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Bouquets for Pasteur R. JOHN H. CLARK, of London, says: “In France the mortality from hydrophobia has been since Pasteur began to inoculate for it.’" Dr. Charles K. Mills, of Philadelphia, one of the foremost neurologists in the increased world, professor of mental diseases and of medical jurisprudence of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, says: “I have never seen a so-called case of hydro phobia that could not be explained on some other view than that of the intro- duction of a specific morbid virus. Al- though I have taken special pains to find a clear case of hydrophobia in the human subject, I have not yet suc- ceeded.” Dr. Joseph W. Hearn thus expresses his opinion: “ Although I have practiced surgery in private and in many of the hospitals of Philadelphia for the past years, I have never seen a case of hydrophobia, either in man or dog, nor do I know any other physician or surgeon who has.” In a little book entitled “The Injury to Our People from a Rabies Agitation,” we read: “Prior to the Pasteur craze and the THE IDLE RICH induction of fright, freely announced as hydrophobia by an uninformed public, it is on record that the maximum number of cases in Paris, for any one year, lay- ing claim to this disease did not exceed thirty. With the introduction of this new industry, during its first year's wave of popularity, no less than three thou- sand persons resorted to the cure.”’ For this triumph of “ Science? thou- sands of dogs have been put through the tortures of the damned Easier Divorce Needed in England Te Wortd says that as the result of fifteen years’ experience as Presi- dent of the British Divorce Court, Lord Gorell reported last May to the Lord Chancellor that cheap and secret divorce is the crying social necd of England. At present, divorce is a luxury so ex- pensive in England that the poor can- not afford it. That that state of things is not the millennial condition which so ny reformers crack it up to be, is evidently the conclusion to which long and close observation has brought this Britsh judge. As divorce is never en- gaging for its own sake, the reasons that Castes hens Gra oer Lord Gorell finds for wanting more of it in England ought to be worth attention from persons who feel it to be vitally important to restrict divorce in the United States LE man docsn’t have to lead a double life L THE WORLD Loves 4 Lover.” 7 PLEASE REMEMBER, TWO'S A COMPANY, TiREE’S A chown,” comicbooks.com