The Osceola times., 1886-02-13

pannlng AT tne emu OF SIX DAYS. Iho
first marrow Of thirteen DAYS would not
kill rabbit. That Of six or seven.
days kills them at the end Of fifteen
days and does not affect the child. The
treatment lasts about ten DAYS. The
incubation produced no pain beyond
that produced by the prcking of the
very fine needle which is inserted i'm the
skin IN the side, one day on the right.
another day on the left. AT the end of
q few days the children bore the prick
ing even without crying. There was
no Inflammation nor rednoss unless il
De on the last day. after the incubation
OF the most virulent marrow, but there
was no pain then.
NJ. Pasteur's method consists in inocu-
lating the system with virus which
develops quicker than the virus of the
mad-dog. This latter in reality devel-
ops itself in rabbits by trepan-
ming at the earliest in fifteen or twenty
days and that of NJ. Pasteur in six.
When the treatment is undergone in
time the inoculated virus prevents the
development of the rabic virus, and.
consequently renders it harmless. In
most cases the treatment will not be too
late, FOR cases are quoted where the
natural inoculation of rabies has not
taken place for two years. The short.
est time in which rabies has declared
itself is forty days at least People
generally have taken that time after
the bite has been received 10 come to
Paris in order toplace themselves under
the care of M. Pas.eur.
Several citizens of France and OF
foreign.countries, NJ Pasteur has told me.
have asked him to create establish
ments for applying his preventative
treatment against hydrophobia. The
founding OF the establishments is,
for the present, premature. In any
case one establishment would be enough
for each country, such as France, Ger
many, England, Russia, and the United
States The poor could be taken there
at the expense of the municipalities,
who would provide for their mainte-
nance during their stay, and even sin
gle establishment at Paris would suffice
for all Europe NJ Pasteur insists
strongly on this point.
Observations made up to January s,
1850, upon nearly one hundred and fifty
persons have proved that the treatment
preferable, it is true, Immediately af-
ter the bte-is still ellcacious after
about fifteen days. even when there has
been no cauterization. II this result is
verified in the future, which it is to bo
hoped il will be, one sees that people
could come from 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 high than
those necessitated by the creation of hos
pltals in other countries. AT any rate,
these hospitals can not be established at
once for several reasons. II any one
wanted TO obtain for himself the virus
of M.-Pasteur, although the method is
very simple and very practical, il would
require two years to do il in.
NJ Pasteur started with the rabies of
dog which kills rabbit in fifteen days
at theIeast In inoculating from one rab-
bit to another he has obtained marrow,
killing at the end OF twelve days, then
at the end of eight days, for example,
after twenty or twenty-five inoculations
or transitions from rabbit to rabbit.
This result alone demands continual
experiments for one year. 1t retains
this power during twenty or twenty
five transactions from rabbit to rabbit,
and then the point of killing is reached
at the end of seven days, which strength
is maintained to the nineteenth transi.
ton.
At the present time NJ. Pasteur has
reached the ninty-nnth transition, and
the incubation lasts six days.
He commenced all these experiments
in November. 1882, which have thus
lasted for three years He could, it is
true, send the rabic marrow, which up
TO the present time seems hardly prac-
ticable, bat above all there does not ex-
ist, beyond NJ Pasteur and those en-
ployed in his laboratory, one single per-
son in the world capable Of undertaking
the treatment with certainty. II is
necessary to have special apparatus and
arrangements, very considerable num-
Der OF animals, and. above all, an inde-
fatigablc and reliable stan, for one must
be prepared every day of the year to
commence one of the several treat
ments. "No rest" says NJ. Pasteu.
Were it not for him, to whom fatigue is
unknown, it would then be necessary to
have at least two directors of the hos
pital, besides several doctors to inocu-
latc-in short, very numerous staff
which it would be impossible to form in
few days. And the slightest impru-
dence, though involuntary, would be fol-
lowed by the most terrible consequences,
the least of which would be to kill the
patient instead of curing them.
'rTo recaptulate, says NJ. Pasteur,
"for perfect safety in the operations the
immediate creation of establishments
abroad is for the present impossible.
He is of the opinion that one establish
ment only is necessary A hospital at
Paris would suffice the whole world.
Z Pasteur has undertaken at his own
cost to cure eleven persons bitten by
mad wolf in village in Western Rus
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