Mohave County miner., 1884-06-15
Louis Pasteur's Discovery.

French scientist. He has made man important discoveries of the germ
 of disease, which have been reportet
 from time to time. These discoverie
 have been reported at length no
 only in the scientific papers, but il
 the newspapers of the day. Pssteur'
 latest discovery :s that of certain
 cure for hydrophobis. For 6 long
 time past large rewards have beer
 offered for sovereign remedy. The
 New York Herald contains 8 summa
 " of Pssteur's discovery, which if
 sent as a cable dispatch. Pasteul
 says:
 "Cauterization of the wound imme
 diatelY after the bite, as is well
 known, has been more or less effec.
 tive, but from to-day anybody bitten
 by mad dog has only to present
 himself at the laboratory of the Ecole Normale and by inoculstion I will make him completely insusceptible to the effects of hydrophobia, even if bitten subsequently, by any number of mad dogs.
 l have been devoting the last four years to this subject. I have found out, in the first place, that the virus rsbique loses It's intensity by trans mission to other animals. With the rabbit, for instance, the virus rabique increases; with the monkey it de- creases. My method was as follows: I took the virus direct from the brain of dog that had died from acute hydrophoqia. With this virus I in ocuIated 8 monkey. The monkey died.
 Then with the virus-already weakened in intensity-taken from this monkey I inoculated a second monkey. Then with the virus taken from the second monkey I lnoculated 8 third monkey, and so on until I obtained 8 virus so weak as to be almost harmless. Then with this almost harmless virus l Inoculsted a rabbit, the virus being at once in- creased in intensity.
 linen with the virus from the first rabbit I inoculsted 8 second rabbit, and there was another increase in the intensity of the virus. Then with the virus of the second rabbit I 8 third rabbit, then fourth, until the virus had regained it's maximum intensity. Thus I ob- tained virus of different degrees of power. l then took a 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 maxi mum intensity. After 8 few days more l inoculated the dog with virus .aken directly crom the bralu of a log that had just dIed of acute mad l ness. The dog upon which I had | proved completely in susceptible to hydrophobis. The was frequently repeated, always with the same successful re- ,ult."
 Pasteur says that his discovery did lot end here. He took two dogs and l noculated them both with the virus | 'aken directly from 8 dog that had | ust died of acute hydrophobia. One ,f the two dogs thus inocuIated was ct alone, and he died of acute hydro 'hobIa, The second dog was sub ected to his treatment, by giving | Jim the three rabbit inoculations, be- ginning with the weakest and ending with the strongest. The second dog vas completely cured. M. Pasteur avs that whoever gets bitten by a mad dog "has only to submit to my hree little inoculations and he need lot have the slightest fear of hydro 'hobia." Pssteur possesses a collec- ion of mad dogs kept for exper- mental purposes. His inventory is aid to include thirty six dogs, abo1t ,ne hundred rabbits, several monkeys md Guinea pigs, all in 8 mora or ess rabid state. It will ba remem- oered that M. Pasteur has made Ieries of brilliant discoveries of 1 germs of disease. He now crowns lis great discoveries by that of sovereign remedy for hydrophobia. That is one of the appalling aff1ic- | ions for which, up to the time of | Pasteur's discoveries, no remedy has ever been found.
 In California hydrophobis is very l are. But Tn other parts of the world | t prevails more or less among ani- nalS Do0a caka uUOlvas and fOxas