The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-05-31
AntidOte for HydropAobla.

AntidOte for HydrOphObla.
The Paris correspondent of the
New York Herald telegraphed
that paper on Monday last that NJ.
Louis Pasteur, the celebrated
French chemist, claims to have
made discovery of the most Vi
tai importance-nothing less, in
fact than q complete cure, or
rather antidote, for hydrophobia.
In an interview with a Figaro cor
respondent, NJ. Pasteur saws
"Cauterization of the wound i'm
mediately after the bite, as is wei.
known, has been more or less eff.
fective, but from to-day anybody
bitten BY mad dog has only to
present himself at the laboratory
Of the Ecole Normale and by inoc-
ulation l will make him complete
ly insusceptible to the effects of
hydrophobia, even if bitten subse-
quently by any number of mad
dogs.
HOW THE POISON WORKS.
II have been devoting the last
four years to this subject. II
found out in the first place that
the virus rabique loses its inten.
sity by transmission to certain an.
imals and increases Its intensity
by transmission to other animals. |
With the rabbit, for instance, the
virus rabique increases; with the
monkey it decreases. My method
was as follows: l took the virus
direct from the brain of q dog
that had died from acute hydro.
phobia. With this virus | inocu.
lated a monkey. The monkey
died.
WEAKENING THE INocULATING |
VIRUS.
''Then with the virus, already |
weakened in intensity, taken from
this monkey, l inoculated a scc-
ond monkey. Then with the vi.
rus taken from the second mon.
key inoculated q third monkey,
and so on until l obtained q virus
so weak as to be almost harmless.
Then with this almost harmless
virus l inoculated a rabbit, the vi.
rus at once being increased In in.
tensity.
BACKWARD PROCESS.
"Then with the virus from the
first rabbit inoculated a second
rabbit, and there was another in
crease in the intensity of the vi
rus. 'Then with the virus of the
second rabbit | inoculated third
rabbit, then q fourth, until the vi
rus had regained its maximum in
tensity. Thus obtained virus of
different degrees of power. l
then took a dog and inoculated
him first with the weakest virus
from the rabbit, then with the vi.
rus from the second rabbit and
finally with the virus of maximum
intensity. After q few days more
l inoculated the dog with virus
taken directly from the brain of
q dog that had just died Of acute
The dog upon which
l had experimental proved CON-
pletely insusceptible to hydropho-
bia. The experiment was fre-
quently repeated, always with the
same successful result.
ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION
"But my discovery does not
end here. took two dogs and
inoculated them both with virus
taken directly from q dog that
had just died Of acute hydropho-
bia. l subjected the second dog
to my treatment, giving him the
three rabbit inoculations, begin
ming with the weakest and ending
with the strongest. This second
dog was completely cured, or
rather became completely insus.
ceptible to hydrophobia.'
A PATIENT.
M. Pasteur then went to a ken
mel and caressed q dog that had
undergone this latter operation.
"voyezi'' said NJ. Pesteur, "com-
me il est bein gentil. Whoever
gets bitten by a mad dog has on
" to submit to my three little in
EQUATIONS and he need not have
the slightest fear Of hydrophobia.
M. PAsTEUR AND HIS MAD DOGS.
NJ. Pasteur. whose researches In
the germ theory are known to, aud
keenly watched by, scientific men,
and followed with interest by the
public throughout the world, has
now attained his object in the
study of hydrophobia, and will
read most important paper be-
- Gatanono