The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-04
PlSTEUR'S GREAT WORK.
HIS PAPER READ BEFORE THE
FRENCH ACADEMY.
Occasion for the Founding OF a Vac
cinal Establishment Against
Madness.

ANS lAotSn IN. d6NtuE lul-
aiteTr Don, at the Academic DIES Sci
ences, read his paper on "The Proven
ton of Rabies By Inoculation." M.Pas-
teur, after relating his methods Of
treatment, iaid that $50 persons had
been inoculated, among them twelve
Americans. In all these cases the
treatment had proved successful, wi b
one exception-nameiy, the case Of
Louiee Pelletier, girl ten years old,
who was bitten October 8 and BIC ,ght
to the laboratory November 9th, thir-
ty seven days after thu bite. The child
was bitten most terribly in the head
the dogs teeth having penetrated al
most to the girls brain. M. Pasteur
said: I'm the scientific interest OF the
method / ought to have refused to
treat this case, and only consented to
do so on account of the anguish of the
parents, and after having been urged
to do so by DR.. Vulpian and other
members OF the medical faculty OF
Paris" NJ. Pasteur then related
his experiments, by which he
demonstrated that the death Ct
Louise Pelletler was caused by the
virus from the dogs bite, and not
from the virus Of incubation. can
other CASE" continued M. Pasteur,
caused me very great anxiety-that
Of boy named Jullion, eight years
old, who was bitten on November
30th by dog subsequently, proved to
have been mad. Jullion was brought
to me three weeks after he was bitten.
His wounds were almost as bad as
those Of the Pelletier girl. Jullion,
when he saw the mad dog bounding
at him, opened his mouth and cried.
The dog flew at him, biting him six
times in the head and neck. One Of
the wounds was terrible; the large
teeth of the dogs lower Jaw had cut
through Jullion's lip and penetrated
deep into the palate. The teeth OF
the dogs upper jaw that remained out
side the child's mouth penetrated bs-
tween the child's right eye and nose.
The wound was 30 dangerous that eau
terisation wGs impossible. The boy lie
now doing we'll"
M. Pasteur here gave statistics of
the last six years in the Department
Of the Seine, showing that in 1878, OF
l03 persons bitten by dogs supposed
to be mad, "a died OF rabies. In 1879
rs were bitten and ~ died OF rabies.
In 1880, 6S were bitten and 5 died.
In 1881, 156 were bitten ald 23 died.
In 1882, 81 were bitten and IL died.
In 1888, As were bitten and 6 died.
The average for the six years was /
death out of the bitten. NJ. Pasteur
concluded with statistics showing tnat
rabies usually manilests itself in a
period varying from forty to sixty
days after the bite, and said: "0f the
$50 cases treated By the new method
100 were bitten before December 10Th
that is TO gay, over two aud hall
months ago; the second 100 were
treated from between six weeks and
two months after they were bitten.
AS to the remaining $50 persona
treated or under treatment, every thing
continues up TO the present the same
as with the first 200. 1t can thus be
seen how many persons have thus far
been saved from death. Prophylactic
treatment for madness after being bit
ten is founded. There is occasion for
founding q VAGINAL establishment
lainst madness"
When ". Pasteur took his seat on
the bench OF the institute, alter read
ing his report, Admiral Julien de la
president of the Academic
des Sciences, thanked M. Pasteur in
the name OF the academy and Of France
for the discovery, and proposed that
an international establishment for in
should, as soon as practi-
cable, be created in Paris, and that
subscriptions should be
opened for the purpose. M. De Frey
cinet, Prime Minister to France, who
was also present, shook M. Pasteur
warmly by the hand, and stated that
the government would do all that it
could to carry out the projected estab-
lishment for incubation, aud that the
Of Finance would rec live and
ho,d at the disposal of committee to
BIZ appointed by the Academic des
Sciences, funds for the erection of the
establishment, M. Pasteur
was most warmly congratulated by all
the members of the academy upon the
spendid success OF his discovery,