The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-05
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The celebrated French scientist PAsteu
has perfected a vaccine for the prevention
Of hydrophobla. Ills previous vacclnes 10
an!bnx-spleplc fever, chArbon milzbrand
Siberian pest various countries hav,
different. namet)-and chicken cholera
would have lecurely fixed his immoral
fame II hc had never gone l1rthei; but Iii
scientific upiri! would mol permit him To
res! con,ented with tho reputation Of the
loren Of those great genluses who have
within a few ycais established the germ
theory on such solid ground that no
palholcglsl Of tx ended reputation will
now riBx his name agiinst II. Even 90
high m authority % Proi. klebs, oil
Prague, Is now committed TO tho theory
that tuberculoatu Ia caused by specific
germ-a theory widely held In Germany
d., Koch, who seven or eight years sEo
established tho fact that splenic fever wsB
always accompanied by q multiplication
oil the bacillus anthracite, ranks next 10
PAs,our by virtue Of hIs long years Of
experimentation and retearct; he Ia now,
or was recently, In Iadia pxpcrims ntlng on
cholera, the bAsillc germ oil which he has
already discovered. DAvaine, Tommssj,
Klein, Cohn, Joubert, Listeur, Tyndall,
Basllan, and many othen Of England,
France, Germany and Italy deserve honor.
able mention In connection with the Il.
Perimenia Of the past twenty-five years,
which are now bringing us close 10 the day
when oil zymo,lc diseases can bs controlled
by tcience. DR.. Ba,t!an, physician and
biologist oil no little reputation, has ar.
rived at conclusions dlametiIcally opposed
10 those Of pAsleur and Tyndal'; but all
experiment Is seryiceable 10 the inyes,Ipa.
lion, and Inquiry Into the germ theory by
thorough dihbelisvera Of the highest tcien.
liilc character will materially assIa. the Ia |
bora oil those who arc trying 10 establish II,
md who have established Ii In the opinion |
II the vast majority oil tho scientific world.
Bat the laboratory studies Of scientlstB
10 not inteits! the great mass Of The PEG.
Die, who arc awakened 10 z,al only by
PRACTICAL proof Of useful nBu.ts. Conse.
luently Pasteur, by his two vaccine discov.
'ries, has Immensely outs.ripped the hest
u experimentefs, and attained world wide
anne In two or three years. II Koch dis.
overs q cholera vaccine, II Freire has dis
overed as Ia supposedly a yellow fever
'accine, theso men will share the honors
With P.s!tuk Meantime the latter has
made bis third succeed Special Telegram
" cable bring from Paris full details oil
nv I'm MI u |
Ills, and monkeys. lie took two dogs,
ncculated both with virus taken
lirectly from the dog that had ,st died Of
cute hydiophobiS, srd subjected one Of
wo TO his vaccine treitment-the latter
saB cured, or at leass did not have hydrt.
'hobis; tho former went mad and died Il
cute bydrophobia. He has thir,y.si1 dogs
q building annexed to his lal o:alory,sc
ording TO The New York Herald. and
Yearly hundred rabbits, several monkeys
nd guinea pi2s, "ull In N more or les
abid state" They are Kept in iron cages,
Here Ia what rtoi. Pasteur says to a cor.
espondent o: Figaro:
From today anybody biien by a mad
log has only to PRESENT himself al the labo
atery Of the Ecole NormRls and by inocu.
alton ! will mako him completely insus.
ep!ible to the Effects Of hydropho6ia, even
bitten subsequently by any number Of
mad dogs.
~ have been devo,lng the last four years
o this subject. found GU. in the first
lace, tina! the pi,us rabique lcsps lie inten.
ity by transmission IL certain animsls
nd increases its intensity by transmits.
ion 10 other animals. With the rabbit, for
INSTANCE, the sirius robiyue increases; with
no monkey 1t decreases. Ny method wcs
9 f1ilows: l took the virus direc! from
he brain o! dog that had died from acute
'ydrophobia. With this virus / inccu.
ated monkey. The monkey died. |
Then with the viius-alrtady weakened
n inlsnsity-taken from thin monkey l
Ilocu!atcd q second monkey. Then with
be virus taken from the second M nkey
noculalsd third monkey, and 60 on until
obtained Q virus 60 wesk "a to be almost
Iarmless. Then with thia almost hal mless
'irus l inoculsted s rabbit, the virus being
1 once increased In intensity. 49,
Then With the virus from the frs. rab.
ut l inoculated second rabbit, and there
sas another Increase in the intensity Of the
'irus. Then with the virus Of the second
ebb!t | incculsted third, then fourth,
Until The virus had reguined max mum
Intensity. Thus I obtained virus OF di Oar.
mt degrees Of power. Ithen took dog
nocala.ed him, first with the weakest vi.
US IRON the rabbi, then with tho virus
rom the second rabbit and finally with the
abbit virus Of ns4imutn intensity. Alter
lew days mere inoculstsd the dog
si!h virus taken directly from tho blain Of
dog thSt had just died Of slnte madnets.
hedos upon which had experimental
'royed completely insuscspiible to hydro.
'hobis. The experiment WAS frequently
epea'ed, always with the saEe successful
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