Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-04
! America, were TO possess a special hos
pital for hydrOphObic patientsS

AmeS,ica, were TO possess a special hos
pital for hydrOphObic patientsS
PROJECTED HOSPITALS.
] have made il point 10 obtain the
opinion Of the Industrious savant himself
on this subject. Several CITIES Of France
and Of foreign countries, M. Pasteur has
told me, have asked him to create estab-
lishments for applying his preventive
treatment against hydrophObfa. The
founding of the establishments rs, for the
present, premature. In any case one es-
Enlistment would be enough for each
country, such as France, Germany, Eng
land, Russia, and the United states. The
poor could be taken there at the expense
of the municipalities, who would provide
for their maintenance during their stay
and evea single establishment at Paris
would suffice for all Europe.
USELESS EXPENSE,
NJ. Pasteur insists strongly on this
point. Observations made up TO to-day
upon nearly one hundred and fifty persons
up TO now one hundred and twenty-five
persons have been inOculated in the labor
atory and the number increases every
day-baye proved that the treatment pre-
ferable, it is true, Immediately after the
bite, is still eticacious after aDout fifteen
DAYS, even when there has been no eau
teriZation. If this result = verified in the
future, which it is to be hoped 1t will be,
one sees That people could come to Paris
in time, even from so far as America or
the frontiers of Russia. The expenses of
the journeys of all the patients would be
less than those necessitated by the crea-
ton of hospitals in other countries.
PATIENCE REQUIRED.
At any rate, these hospitals cannot be
established at once for several reasons.
If any one wanted to obtain for himself
the virus of NJ. Pasteur, although the
method is simple and very practical, 1t
would require two years to do it in. nj.
Pasteur started with the rabies of a dog
which kills rabbit in 10 days at the
least. In incculating from one rabbit to
another he has obtained marrow killing
at the end of twelve days then at the
end of eight days, after 20 or % in
EQUATIONS or transitions from rabbit to
rabbit.
SLOW WORK.
This result alone demands continual
experiments for one year. 1t retains this
power during twenty or twenty-five tran
sitlons from rabbit to rabbit, and then we
reach the point of killing at the end of
seven days, which strength is maintained
to the ninetieth transition. AT the pres
ent time NJ. Pasteur has reached the
ninety-ninth transition, and the incuba-
these experiments in November, 1882,
which have thus lasted for three years.
NJ. PAsTEUR's MONOPOLY.
He could, it is true. send the rabIc mar
row, which up to the present time seems
hardly practicable, but above all there
does not exist beyond NJ. Pasteur and
those employed In mis- laboratory one
single person in the world capable of
undertaking the treatment with GER
tainty. 1t is necessary to have special
apparatus and arrangements, very con-
siderable number of animals, and, above
all, an indefatigable and reliable staff,
for one must be prepared every day of
the year to commence one or several
treatments.
CON OPTIONS TO BE FILLED.
''No rest" says Nj. Pasteur. Were it
not TOR him, to whom fatigue is unknown,
1t would then be necessary to have at
least two directors Of the hospital besides
several doctors, to inoculate; in short, a
very numerous staff, which it would be
impossible to form in few days. and the
slightest imprudence, though involun-
tary, would be followed by the most ter
rible consequences, the least of which
would be to Kill the patients instead Of
curing them.
THE Masters CONCLUSIONS.
"To recapitulate," says NJ. Pasteur.
'fOr perfect safety in the operations, the
immediate creation of establishments
abroad is for the present impossi ble." He
is OF opinion that one esta blishment only
is necessary. A hospital at Paris would
suffice for the whole world.
E. w AssERzUG.
Assistant at the laboratory of NJ. Pasteur,
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