The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-27
Is Hydrophobia PreventibIe ?
Americans to be Treated by
LOUIS PASTEUR,
OF Paris, Who PrOfessts TO Hav,
Discovered a Means OF Pre-
venting Madness After
Injury From Rabid
Animals.

nv iii the alleged discoveries mad,
luis Pastenr, of Paris, medica
m's,I Sare unanimous In the state
a"n t IN. "TJe was no cure for by
Observation-Disclosures case of recnverx
on record and the ',arlv cnttiug ~
of the portion of flesh '.jttcn or fba,
lacreated by scratch or ubor mean.
by rabid animal was recoi. msnJed
as the sole sure preventive o. mai,
ness from the injury. ~
Louis Pasteur, an eminent chemis
of Paris, determined, about five year
ago, to find remedy for perhaps tn.
most dreaded of diseases. Hc hat
previously discovered method o
lnocIlation which prevented spleni,
fever in cattle and sheep, aud expert
mented in the expectation of making
the great discovery, that hydropho.
Dia could be prevented by inoculs-
ton with the virus Of rabies. Iu
October last Pastcur announced thai
by the means stated hydrophobia wa
preventible in human beings. Preyi-
ously, in June, 1884, he had published
the success of his plan In the treat
inent of dogs bitten or scratched by
nIau animals.
AT the present time NJ. Pasteur has
more than seventy persons under his
care. They are both male and female,
and of all ages, ranging from
infancy TO an advanced Pc
riod of life. The French
government has placed the Hotel
Dieu hospital at Pasteur's disposal
inF naiInItta tuh a.. Il.
dressing. Most patients live near
his laboratory and call to be inocn-
lated as often as need be. The dis
coverer of what promises to prove n
great boon to mankind, is neither, a
surgeon nor physician, aud employs
surgeon 10 operate undur his In.
structiOus.
What In America gives special In
terest to the ! asteur method of pre-
venting hydrophobia is the
misfortune which befe!: four
boys in Newark. New
Jersey. ON December I'd last. They
we're bitten by a dog believed 10 be
mad. a local physician interested
himself 10 procure Tor them the
promise OF treatment by N. Pasteur,
who cabled his Willingness. Accord.
ingly subscription to cover ex-
penses was taken, aud heyoungsters,
whose ages rapge FROM fourteen to
nye, started from New York TO
Europe ON December 3. The state
lnent Is made that Oh ly one OF VI. Pas
tours patients has died from hydro.
phobia, aud that all others have done,
pr are doing, well. Faith that he will
succeed In preventing harm TO the
children rs general. On De- |
'ember 10, one Charles kaufman, of |
township, near Newark, y. n.
allied for France in orderto place him |
elf under M. Pasteur's care. Mad dog
tories are now In abundance both al
ONO aud abroad. While these
'ords are being written comes an ac-
punt from Newark 10 the effect thai
" Satler a reirinary surgeon, has
cen severely bitten by mad dog, a
" pug, which he was called in 10
oclor. Dr. Satler Immediately on
sewing The wound cauterized IL very ,
with a red hot poker and
p'e. 70 go To Paris, considering 4
'as she prompt cauterizatlon is .
!, Ho'Ynt safeguard against danger ofl
hiseilun from the virus.
N; fastour Is a native of Dole. 4,
ne 'ura, ana Is about 40 wears of
~; ne Is an honorary FeIloS al
le Royal Society Of london .,,d ~
ersohally well-known M E..,iiIi,
zen OF science. Pertains ,ha
'ay OF stating his method ~ oos'
nre III the matter which gi.P ivec-
o'of'e'y throughout the world, il TO