St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-30
HYDRoPHoBIA 1NoCULArIoN.

Now that the Newark children who were
bitten by mad dog are in Paris under
the treatment of PASTEUR everything con-
nected with them is of public interest. The
children are said to be getting fat, as PAS
TEUR predicted they would. They are
permitted to play out doors during the day
time. Every morning they go into the
chemists laboratory and are inoculated.
The process of inoculating is described by
the Herald's Paris correspondent, who was
permitted to visit the laboratory on Christ
mas morning at the hour that the children
were to be inOculated. He says that
the children all burst into the room laugh
ing and received PAsTEUR's Christmas greet
ings with demonstrations of affection. Mr..
PAsTEUR said to the correspondent, Every
day two rabbits have to be sacrificed in
order to obtain virus to inoculate the little
children from Newark. Here are the two
victims for to-day" pointing to two large
rabbits-one white, the other gray-sit-
ting on table near the window. What
followed is thus described by the CORE
spondent:
NJ. LoER, NJ. PAsTEUR's nephew and princi-
pal assistant, then caught one of the rabbits
by the ears, took pair of sharp scissors and
cut off all the fur from the top of the rabbits
head He then stretched the rabbit out fiat,
belly down, upon square piece OF wood.
The rabbits feet were then tied with strong
cord to each corner of the piece of wood. M.
LoER then sprinkled chloroform on piece of
paper and held it to the rabbits nose until
the animal became unconscious. He then
cho 1rnff clSf
bout an inch long through the skin of the
rabbits head just between the eyes.
The skin was then stretched apart with
pinccrs, and sort Of wedge of silver
wire was inserted SO as to hold back the
skin and to expose the bare skull. With a
delicately-constructed instrument, like a
small anger, M. LoER then bored a hole right
through the animals SKULL Into this hole M {.
LOER inserted a needle, like the point of a
syringe, and injected right into the rabbit s
brain solution of virus prepared from the
brain of a mad dog. The syringe was then
withdrawn, the wedge of silver wire removed
the wound dressed. the skin carefully sewed
together and the rabbit was labelled with the
date and quality of the incubation and put
into cage. In exactly six days this rabbit
will die of rabies, and the Newark children
will be fnoculated with the virus taken from
its brain. By a series of NEGOTIATIONS and
reinoculations M. PAsTEUR can obtain virus
of any desired degree of intensity. The
strongest virus that he uses in inOculations
is that which causes rabbit to die of rabies
six days after incubation; the weakest virus
used is that which causes the rabbit to die of
rabies in fourteen days.
When the Newark children arrived they
were first inoculated with virus warranted
to kill in fourteen days." on the next day
they were inoculated with virus warranted
to kill in thirteen days." and so they will be
inoculated with virus of descending grade
until they reach the day when they will re-
ceive the virus ''tokll in six days." when
the treatment will be finished and they will
return home