New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-19
p4STEUKS CONFIDENCE.
No ACCIDENT IN TREATING 600 CASES
uypRoPHoBIA MORE vlRULINT FROM WOLF Diih'
TIE THREE RUSSIAN PATIENTS.
ley CABLE TO TIE TNBUSE.l

ley CABLE THE JKfBISE.
Cop,rioht; 1856; North american CABLE Ne~S 70
PARIS. April IS.-The death of three or the
pus.ians under Paseurs treatment for hydrophooa as
,.red charm criticism and doubt OF Ills method
uhu. p,steur himself has undimnished confidence IN
the mcrobe theory and faith IN the eihcacy OF
ny ipoculation when the victim has been oiteh oy ~
dog he does not feel the same toward cases "heo o
virus has been received from mad wol' HAVING SUI SUI
itted several questions TO NJ. Paseur in writing IHh
TppINt representatiye received written iepes "s 4oi
lows: 49,, H.. -,
"Why has your treatment failed TO save the ''cS VI
the three Russians bitten by wofi
" The httes of the W If are general numerous ana
are nearly all on the head The dog usuay pltes pu'
once and then runs away whiie Ihc "o4' '0'"O' '
tim aud bites many times. ,
..nos tho renetiop OF the bite OF the same animal
maze the case worse when there is only one bite -
Certainly The more the bites ana tue "oise 'uo
tim is aceratcd, the more the virus IL ntrouuceu o u"
blood and the more intense is the disease
"In the case of a bite from mad won' now lohS a
time may elapse before you pesin !o''
any hope OF curef . ,,o,, ,h,a
The duration of the incubation OF hyUIop"'''"
after bite from mad wolf is often very snort soho
times only two three weeks After the DiVe VI Z"
mad dog short periods OF incubation are
rare However do not think the virus oI
mad wolf differs much from that OF mad dog unless
the wolf has received the vrus from another won an"
that one from another. and so on In the case oi ny"
nboba thus transmitted from wolf to woIi 'he DUO VI
the last wolf would have much greater degree o Nu
lenee than that Of dog We don't Rho" "n"' H"p'0"'
,n the forests of Russia That is matter for future
- I, NAV he fouud that the incubation OF victims
of mad wolves ought to six days after the
bite IL that he and the forests OF Russia arc Iouo
TO contain mad wolves shall be the first to ask LOT the
creation OF one or Establishments III Russia Ae
mime in Paris. 49,.
al, il not possible that since in the case Of these
pps.i.rs Won have made twO noculatOns per day,you
have increased the strength OF the virus injected faster
than tho patients blood could accustom ltseH u 'io
yirusl In short may not the inocuiauons 'hcmsoN''
have hastened or even caused the hydrophoDia
.I make two NEGOTIATIONS per day just the same III
certain cases Of dog 0 for the purpose oil aorug
ny tho duration Of the treatment and arriving more
quickly at state Of refractorness against hydrophoo
When that state has been produced any quantity Oh
virus may be put into the system without Tue ss"eS'
,nconyenence to the patient This treatment has never
resulted in the accident in the cases OF more 'h"n
600 persous who have been treated by me.
After a patient has been bitten 10y mad dogs now IS
tthatyour injections OF weakened virus at first fol
Lowed by injections Of virus Of greater intensity can
prevent the original strong virus received lrom INC
animals teeth from taking lis natural course +
because the virus which Introduce acts upon 'ho
systen more rapidly than that of a bite ,,,
"Wil It ever be possible to apply the same pt'nc'Pe
TO the treatment OF snake bitesr ... ..,,.,,, r,
No because the bite OF snake acts so quickly IL
acts ike any other acute poison ,.-..>- -, 4,
An interview with the comic Do La 80 80
at the head OF the movement for founding Pasteur
institute III Paris, having been prevented by MS Illness,
the COiute unable TO give fuII doIas .ne
,Iou lie sent TIE TRIBUNE representative letter,
IRON which the following is an extract;
In seeking the subscriptions OF which spoke 10 you
o Wish 70 csther together necessary to create
hospita where may be received persons VINO nave Deen
6It en- by mad animals, to whatever nation tbey nlay
belong; secondly. TO give 10 savants the means me, us
TO study the disease caused by the lhtrO"ucLon
OF microbes into the system and 70 ma the way VI
them by means Of a,tenuatcd virus" . .,, -
Considerable opposition TO Pasteurs methou ~ eA'
Ia iN
without a license "A physician being chemist, not a
doctor shown that hs never performs the III.
oculatOn himself but always hasi done by an assisat
duly licensed TO practise ncdicue this move vas
failure.