In 1885 the first successful vaccine for this was tested on a boy who had been bitten by a dog
In 1885, a young boy, Joseph Meister, had been bitten by a rabid 
dog, and... [DOC] [TLE] Joseph Meister - Wikipedia [PAR] Joseph Meister (21 February 1876  24 June 1940) was the first person to be 
inoculated against rabies by Louis Pasteur, and the first person to be successfully 
treated for the infection.