00:00In the summer of 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister was bitten by a rabid dog and his mother turned to Louis Pasteur, a famous microbiologist and chemist at that time.
00:16Pasteur administered him strong doses of serum over the course of ten hours.
00:23The boy survived, becoming the first person cured of rabies.
00:29In gratitude for his salvation, Meister spent his entire life attending the scientists' grave and working as a guard at the Pasteur Institute.
00:42In 1940, Nazi troops invaded France and the soldiers demanded that Meister open Pasteur's tomb.
00:52He committed suicide rather than discredit the scientists' ashes.
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