The Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, India: production of the rabies vaccine: inserting a swab on a wire into the spinal canal of a dissected rabbit, previously infected with rabies. Photograph, ca. 1910.

1910

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 18 x 24.9 cm

Removal of the cord (Oshida's method). A transverse incision has been made in the lumbar region, down to the spinal column and the latter severed by a bone forceps. A thin, stiff wire with a small cotton-wool swab on the end of it is being inserted into the spinal canal

Wellcome Collection 570960i