The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-12-29
Pasteur's American Patients.

PARIS, Deco .2S.-The children from Newark,
N. j., are receiving inoculations at NJ. Pas
teurs laboratory every morning The rest
of the day they play about, and are already
verifying M. Pasteur's prediction by getting
fat. When they. came to the laboratory, on
Christmas morning, M. Pasteur said to them
with strong French accent, Il wish you
merry Christmas" The children all burst
out laughing. NJ. Pasteur then gave each of
them very small glass of sweet Muscatelle
wine. All the children have taken great
fancy to M. Pasteur. Young Fitzgerald calls
him ''The Little Guv'nor," and Eddie Ryan
calls him Papa"
On the Labrador which entered port at
another resident sOf New Jersey, who had
been bitten by mad dog on November 21st,
and is on his way to PaSteur. When the
case was described to Pasteur, yesterday. he
shrugged his shoulders and said: Thirty
eight days? All, it is late, very late" To
the question whether there was any hope he
said:
IF inoculation of the virus has begun,
then there is scarcely any hope. incubation
for the prevention of rabies after incubation
has set in is just as inefficaciOus as Jenuer'
inoculations for small poX would be after in
fection with the disease. But you must re-
member that science does not, as yet, enable
us to determine with certainty how long a
period is required All we know is that the
period of incubation varies greatly. 1t seems
to be shorter with children than with adults.
The little girl, who was not treated until 81
days after being bitten, died of rabies, as
you are aware, IL days after her first inocu-
lation. Experiments made by the inocula-
tion of rabbits with virus taken from the
dead girls brain prove that incubation had
begun before her inoculation. AS | have
told every One | ought strictly, in the scien-
tific interest of my method, not to treat any
case after the lapse of % days from the bite.
But, on purely humanitarian groundSsI do
M fms n trpat if the 1Sn
is apparently desperate. As to Kaufman.
of course ! am willing to treat him, for, as
suming the dog which bit him to have been
really mad, there is still a slight hope of sue
it';; fsssful treatment But do not answer for
crevy Reelected President.
M. Francois Julius P, Greyy was re-elect-
ed president of the French Republic today
by Joint vote of the Senate and Chamber
of Deputies, acting as an national assembly.
The balloting was carried on amid great eX-
citement. Only five members of the Right
cast ballots. M. Grevy's total majority in
the joint ballot was 135.
There was great excitement over the elec-
ton. The streets near the chamber were
crowded, and the proceedings in the. cham
bers were noisy, members of the Right be-
ing especially turbulent. A fight took place
between a member of the right and one of
the Left, then a lull followed and the ballot
ing took place.
During the progress of the voting nj.
Cuneo de Ornano shouted that the national
assembly as at present constituted was a
body of usurpers
Paul de Cassagnac cried out that the Con-
gress was illegal and the presidential election
farce as four of the departments of France
were not represented at the meeting.
Second ballots were held yesterday in the
department of the Seine for six seats in the
Chamber of Deputies to fill vacancies caused
by option for the other constituencies. The
vote was as follows:
Radicals 600
OpportunistS. 100000
Conservatives. $4,000
Ten Persons Drowned in Rouen.
Ten persons were drowned at Rouen yes
terday in consequence of a collision between
the steamer Furet and a ferry boat in the
harbor.