New-York tribune., 1886-04-04
PASTEUk AT WORK.

EXPERIMENTS WITH AN IMPROVED THEORY
| FROM RrGULAR CORRESPONDENT oY TIE TSiBUsEI
PARIS. March 20.
| There is rush to NJ Paseurs laboratory
of dog and wolf bitten patients from all
| parts of Europe. There tod ay ff:y-seveu
under treatment and nocuIa:ions were made at the
| Hotel Dieu Hospital on five Russians and IN .
lodging house on lady from Nancy. / went with
| NJ. Pas!eur to see the five at the Hotel Dieu
| One of them, a man named lvano1. occasioned
| great uneasIness, he being febrile. doctor
went with us. lie and the Augustine
| Sisters of Charity said that they never
saw such sweet-fempered patients as the
Russians. They were easy to please, 50 slow ia
! complain so cheerful. obedient and resigned FoI
any kindness they showed the deepes- gratltuda
Allof them had learned one French word" Nad."
| or Thank you" When Pasteur and Surgeon De-
| paul were locking at the wounds atache If the
| Russian Embassy came in TO inquire abDut his M
| fortunate compatrlots aud to ask whether Baron
| Morenhelm would be allowed 10 send them some
| dainty food of which list was shown. Orange
| marmaade was one of the things mer toned. The
| patients too religious to eat any fool prohS
| tied by the Greek Church in Lent anc therc
| fore limited to the vegetable kingdom. There waa
| a silver samOvar or Russian kettle. In the room
| bearing the arms of the Russian Embassy, and
tea-caddy, with cups. saucers lemons and sweets Of
nice-looking olive oil, winch taken IN lien Of
| butter. The Ambassador yesterday brought his
| chaplain to give them q meat-eaiing du,gence.
but they refused to benefit by IL. | heard several
| doctors say that If nineteen persons of Western
| Europe had been rs badly wounded large nuIn3er
of them must have died There have been only
three rendered seriously iii by the mutaions they
received. NJ Pas;eur Is n short, broad-shOuldcred
and Geep-ct ested man, with a massive head aud
large body His face Is dark and his tawnycolored
eye looks tired. The complexion is bisir0us, and
| the ace deeply lined His physiognomy expressea
| frmness of character and kindness. The speech ia
drawing. lie ainrms categorlcally the virtues OF
MS inoculation. | heard him to-day affirm that il
often renovates the constitution. He instanced aa
| English young lady who since he treated her has
recovered the appetite which she list
and is no longer troubled with insomnia
| l asked him whether the virus applied
| according 10 his method caused physical
| arrangement. Not at all" he replied.
Pasteur showed great anxiety that 10 the even; of
IvanoT dying there should be searching pos;-lnor
| TEN examination. Enemies of his theory were
| sprnging up In every direction and some of them
had we-justrfied claims to scientific authority. In
| this instance they were wrong. He wished they
| would all attend the autopsy of IvanOf should 4
| septic complication arising from the harm dole 20
| the tissues Kill him.
of Ta.,es has been too readily admitted. His noc-
ulat rs, which. by the by, a.e not performed Nv
hun, 6nt by Doctor ,Irmh hGra%eser' vs;as are
quite justified the late Doctor jules
GuerIns crtIc isms thei want of scientific p.e-
cisOn. b0ctOr Hme, who has accompanied .
dog-bItten tailor and two children from Bradford.
told me that he never saw IN his e sucl. ggieGg-
piggedy sort of Arrangement, as those at Paselrs
| laboratory. Doctor Time expected that each BIT
| ten person would be treated separately and that
| there would be minnie record kept OF the tlne
| ,I,.n f.t. 4
| stances whicn mighI nentraize tHe Die, 100
symptoms aud the different degrees OF atuenuati3n
in the virus used. Instead Of this he saw long
| heels of the other IN Indian he to a table at which
| Doctor Graucher stood with glasses holding virus
| of different degrees Of culture lie had bat ons
| syringe, with however 6erent :ubes. Patients
were Rapidly placed and each batch nocuated
| from the same tube. Ii all done while one
might be saving Jack Robinson Grarcier op.r-
aed at the rate of about twenty-five InOculatlons
| minute The inocuiations were performed upon
the al! !omen because there Is no muscular activity
| to speak of there. 1t II the part ol the body
least liable tn get iDflamed if puhctured. PaSterr,
| I should add watches TO see how many times the
| different patients have been punctned. lie does
not know any of them by sight, and does not re-
| man In communication with sing e one OF them
after the ten days treatment IS gone through.
| Such circumstance as dog having bitten
| through a boot or garment may be remembered by
the savant ut he does no: record il. Of the many
doctors who have with bitten patients 90 hiin.
| only Hme (whO is an officer OF Health at bad
| forh noticed these SHORTCOMINGS. All the othrrs
seemed to have been violently pfcdlspOsed Dy Jed-
ner to accept Pasteur.
The Russian patients are under young jewish
doctor named DayldOf. lie II a remarkably WIDE
awake person with large, protrudlng and very
cunning eyes, thick hps and snub nose. Baron
Moernheim talsO by birth Semlte though OF Or
thOdox regonl sent another silver sanovar and q
box of tea to lis wOlf-bnten countrymen. The doc
tor carried off the handsome TO his own lodg-
ings after replacing 1t with brass one never sav
"A more filthy. courteous shaggy gentle and cheeiy
set OF people than the Russian peasants. They arc
not in hospital, but treated i'll tn: lodging
country doctors who are with them. Their heads
aud boards are as whIspy the coat of a wolf dog,
aud they are dirty that their clothes gave out .
sharp rancid Odor.