Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-08-26

a bed OF roses a. possible. After ~
ing his four legs apart 80 that the rab-
bit LOOKS Us though 1t were Learning to
swim on pine board, DIR. Baldwin
administers ether to the struggling
sacrifice. Pasteur always uses chloro-
form at this stage, but rs this is IN
American rabbit we can do rs we
please in the matter After few en-
crgctic muscular protests the rabbit
becomes still u death. DR.. Baldwin
cuts off the hair on the top of it. head
and opens the skin SO that the skull is
exposed Coolly and swiftly DR.. Mott
borrS hole IN the covering and the
membrane of the brain appears. Be-
meath this membrane the point of Il
hypodcrmic syringe charged with the
dissolved mcdulla oblongata and YEA.
broth Is inserted and the fluid begins
IT. fatal progress. There may bc those
who think that the broth alone thus I'M
serted would eventually kill the rabbit,
hut they have never studied with Pas
tour and are apt to jump at corl
illusions. The mornings work i near
Is done. The wound in the rabbits skin
is quickly scwcl mp, its legs are united,
and the unlucly creature i replaced in
it, cage. The Effects Of the ether
soon disappear and the rabbit seems
none the worse for is strange expert
cncc. II will not rc until the cNpira-
ton Of s,ycn days that thc victim Will
begin 10 show sign, OF the poison in is
system. 1t begins then 20 grow un-
steady on It's LEGS, and actS much Us
though it had inlulgcd in too much
whisky. A. the day, - lay the animal
become, arao,t wholly paralyaod and
gradually lo,sc, all desire for food and
water At the end of from twelve to
fourteen day, it dies.
Now let u, sec how the result, of the
last hours work are preserved. 10 do
thi, one must 90 into another room.
Thi, is the ,anclum ,anc,orum, where
the vifu, /. pr,,crvcl in ,ter.liked
jars. The inner closet, containing the
Jazz. is sacred TO the eyes OF only Drs.
Mott and Baldwin. Thccc arr at pres
ent carefully preserved in this weird
lit,lc room spinal cords representing
fourteen dilrrcn, degree, Of poisonous
strength. That is, one virus placed in
jar to-day i, of tn, greatest power,
while that stored away fourteen days
AGO is comparatively weak. When \
patient como, TO ra,tcur suffering
from the bite o! mad dog the great
scientist inocula,cs the victim with
virus fourteen days old. On the sec
ond day he inOculatcS with virus ol
thirteen DAYS strength. lie makes ten
iuocula,ion,, giving the patient on III"
last DAY poison taken from Il rabbit
but five days before The the
ory Is that the system becomes
used to thc hydrophohia germs by de-
grccs, and that the original poison de-
rived from the mad dog i not able to
take effect M,thrilatcs. it will b. r.
membcrcl. worEcd on this basis
centuries ago and hardened his system
to resist all kinds OF poison. DR. Mott
/, working hard to secure enough virus
to begin treating patients q, once. In
order to do thi, II is nccc- ,ary TO have
his rabbits dying at regular intervals.
that the successive inoculaticn' may
always have virus of the desired
strength at hand. One difficulty en-
countcrcl is the scarcity Of rabbits.
The demand Tor rabbits for scientific
purposes has greatly increased OF latc
and the price for the unlucky animals
has gone up in like degree. Rabbits
are gcn,lc ami easily di,sccted. and for
these reasons are popular with scicn-
lists.
\ few words aS to the men carrying
on the experiments described above.
DR.. Valentine Mott is grandson of DIR.
Valentine Mott. who before his death
in 1865 was one of the ablost practi-
TONERS in the country. DR.. Mott $
father i Dr. Alexander Mott, OF o.
Madison avenue Both father and son
are deeply Interested in the Past ur
theory. and are deyoang time and
money TO the establishment of hydro
phobia cure in the Carnegie labora-
tory. The latter is graduate OF
Columbia College and OF the Bellevue
Medical College. He was under Pas
tours instruction in Paris for some time
last spring AMI became \ thorough
convert TO the c.Frcnchman's teachings.
DR.. T. \. Baldwin,, who is ably assist
in. him in his present work. is also a
graduate Of the Bellevue Medical Col
lege.
There are. Of course, many who
doubt the practical value OF Pastcur
methods ANY failure which occurs
in his treatment is telegraphcd and
cabled to the four corners of the earth.
He is receiving the same treatment
which all great medical discoveries
have had to endure. The fact. how
ever. that some of his patients die is by
no means conclusive evidence that his
theory is founded ON false basis,
while, on the other hand, il it cln bC
shown that he has prevented hydro
phobia in but one instance the value OF
his discovery is proved at once. The
weight of probability. 1t is held. indi'
cafes that the poison from mad dogs