The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-06
A CURE FOR HYDROPHOBTA.
WONDERFUL DISCOVERY OF THE EF-
FICIENCY o. INCUBATION.
A French Scientist's Experiments
With Animals go. Curing Rabid

WIN Animals - Curing Habid
Dogs.
M. LOUIS Pasteur, the celebrated French
chemist, claims TO have made discovery
of the most vital Notwithstanding
less, in fact, than a complete cure, or
rather antidote, for hydrophobia. In an
interview with Paris Figaro correspond
ent NJ. Pasteur says:
"Cauterization of Che wound immedi-
ately after the bite, as is well known, has
been more or less effective, but from to-
day anybody bitten by mad dog has
only to present himself at the laboratory
of the Ecole Normale and by incubation
| will make him completely insusceptibe
t. the effects Of hydrophobia, even if bit
ten subsequently by any number of mad
dogs.
81 have been devoting the last four
years to this subject. l found out, in the
first place, that the virus rabique loses
its intensity by transmission to certain
animals and increases its intensity by
transmission to other animals. With the
RABBIT, for instance, the virus rabque in
creases; with the monkey it decreases.
My method was as follows: | took the
virus direct from the brain of dog that
had died from acute hydrophobia. With
this virus | inoculated a monkey. The
monkey died.
Then with the virus already weak
ened in intensity-taken from this mon
key inoculated a second monkey. Then
with the virus taken from the second
monkey | inoculated third monkey. and
so on until obtained a virus so weak as
to be almost harmless. Then with this
almost harmless virus inoculated rab-
bit, the virus being at once increased in
intensity.
"Then with the virus from the first
rabbit inoculated second rabbit and
there was another increase in the inten-
sity of the virus. Then with the virus
of the second rabbit inoculated a third
rabbit, then a fourth, until the virus had
regained its maximum intensity. Thus
| obtained virus of different degrees
OF power. | then took dog and inocu-
lated him, first with the weakest virus
from the rabbit, then with the virus from
the second rabbit and finally with the
rabbit virus of maximum intensity.
After few days more | innoculated the
dog with virus taken directly from the
brain of dog that had just died Of acute
madness. The dog upon which 1 had
experimental proved completely insus.
ceptible to hydrophobia. The expert
ment was frequently repeated always
with the same successful result
But my discovery docs not end here.
took two dogs and inocuated them
both with virus taken directly from a dog
that had just died of acute hydrophobia.
let one of my two dogs thus inoculated
alone, and he went mad and died of acute
hydrophobia. l subjected the second
dog to my treatment giving him the
three rabbit inoculations, beginning with
the weakest and ending with the strong
est. This second dog was completely
cured, or rather became completely insus.
ceptlble to hydrophodia."
NJ. Pasteur then went to kennel and
caressed a dog that had undergone this
latter operation. "Whoever gets bitten
by mad dog" said NJ PaS,eur, has
only to submit to my three little inocula-
tions and he need not have the slightest
fear of hydrophobia.