Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-13
A GREAT

A French Chemist Discovers n Cure for
the Dreadful Disease, H%ydrophobia.
PARIS, May 19.-M. Louis Pasteur, the cele-
DRAFTED French chemist, claims to have made
a discovery of the most vital Importance,
nothing less in fact than a complete cure or
rather antidote for hydrophobia. In an IN
terview with a Figaro correspondent NJ.
Pasteur says: "Cauterization of the wound
Immediately after the bite, as is well known,
has been more orless effective, but from to-
day anybody bitten by a maddog has only to
present himself at the laboratory of
the Ecole Normle, and by inocu-
insusceptible to the effects of hydro
phobia, even if bitten subsequently
by any number of mad dogs. 1 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 trans
mission to certain animals, and
increases its intensity by transmission
to other animals. With the rabbit, for in
stance, the virus rabique increases, and with
the monkey it decreases. My method was as
follows: l took the virus direct from the
brain of a dog that had died from acute
hydrophobia. With this virus l inoculated
a monkey, and the monkey died. Then with
the virus, already weakened in intensity,
taken from this monkey 1 inocu-
lated a second monkey; then with the virus
taken from the second monkey l inoculated
a third monkey, and so on until l obtained
a virus so weak as to be almost harmless.
Then with this almost harmless virus l in
oculated arabbit, the virus being at once i'll
creased in intensity. Then with the virus
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rabbit, and there was another increase in
virus Of the second rabbit l inoculated a
third rabbit, then a fourth, until the virus
had regained its maximum intensity. 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 virus from the second
rabbit, and finally with the rabbit virus of
maximum intensity. After a few days
more l inoculated the dog with virus taken
directly from the brain of a dog that had
just died of acute madness. The dog upon
which 1 had experimental proved COM
pletely insusceptible to h%ydrophobia. The
experiment was frequently repeated, always
with the same successful results. But my
discovery does not end here. | took two
dogs and %inoculated them both with
virus taken directly from a dog that
had just died of acute hydrophobia. l let
II of my two dogs thus inoculated alone,
and he went mad and died of acute hydro
phobia. I subjected the second dog to my
treatment, giving him the three rabbit in
EQUATIONS, beginning with the weakest and
ending with the strongest. This second
dog was completely cured Or rather became
completely insusceptible to hydrophobia."
NJ. Pasteur then went to a kennel and
caressed an animal that had undergone this
latter operation. "Voyez, voyez," said NJ.
Pasteur, "comme il est bein gentil." Who
ever gets bitten by a mad dog has only to
submit to my three little NEGOTIATIONS, and
he need not have the slightest fear Of
hydrophobia."