When was the first rabies vaccine used in a person?

On 6 July 1885, Louis Pasteur and his colleagues treated Joseph Meister, who had been badly bitten by a rabid dog. Pasteur had developed the vaccine through experiments on animals, even though he was not a physician. Meister survived, and the case became a landmark in immunology and public health. Pasteur’s success helped establish the idea that vaccines could prevent deadly infectious disease after exposure.