The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1886-02-06

asys kllls them Il ne end n fifteen
DAYS and does not affect the ehlld Iha
issla sboat Ten dsfa The
lnoenlatiun pfoduoad M pslu beYoad
that produced by The 1sirfinR u ths
ysfg hns nesdle which u inserted In ths
skIn in the side, sna day on the light,
another day On The len A. lbs end u
A iew .days The children hore The prick
lag even without crying There wa
no inflammation nor fednesa unless
he on the last day, after The incubation
n The most vlruIent marrow, bat there
Was no pain then
N rasteur's method consists In lnoou-
lallng the system with virus which
develops quicker than the virus u tho
ma@dog. This latter In reality devel.
ops iiaeli In rabbits by trspan.
ming VI the earliest In fifteen or twenty
DAYS aud that oi NJ Pasteur In sx.
When the treatment Is undergone In
time the inoculated virus prevents the
development " the fabic virus, and,
consequently rondorA II harmless. In
most cases The treatment will not be too
late, Tor eases are quoted where the
natural incubation Of rabies has not
taken place for two years The short
est time In which rabies has declared
itself ia forty days at least People
generally have taken that time after
the bite has been received 10 come 20
Paris In order TO place themselves under
the care of M Pasteur.
Several citizens Of France and Of
forcign.countries, NJ. Pasteur has told me,
have asked him TO create establish.
ments for applying his preventative
treatment aeainst hydrophobia. The
founding OF tho establishments Ia,
for the present, premature. In any
ease one establishment would be enough
for each country, such as France, Ger
many. England, Russia, and tho 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
ple cstablishment at Paris would suffice
| Tor all Europe. M. Pastcur insists
strongly on this point.
Observations made up to January .,
| 1885, upon nearly one hundred and fifty
persons have proved that the treatment
preferable. Il is true, Immediately af-
tor the bite-is still eillcacious after
about fifteen DAYS. even whom there has
been no cauterization. II this result is
verified in the future, which II is to be
hoped Il will be, one sees that people
could come from Paris In time even
from 80 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 st
once for several reasons. II any one
wanted TO obtain for himself the virus
Of NJ. Pasteur, although tho method 10
.. very simple and very practical, Il would
/, | require two years TO do Il In.
N. Pasteur started with the rabies Of
.. A dog which kills rabbit In fifteen days
|, | at the least. In inoculating from one rab.
Bit to another he has obtained marrow.
killing AT the ond of twelve DAYS, then
At the end Of eight days, for example.
after twenty or Twenty-Five inoculations
; or transItions from rabbit 10 rabbit.
This result alone demands continual
experiments for one year. II retains
!, this power during twenty or twenty.
a five transactions from rabbit TO rabbit
and then the polnt OF killing Is reached
|. At the end OF seven DAYS, which strength
4 Is maintained 10 the nineteenth transi
!. ton.
- At the present time NJ. Pastsur hal
!, reached Tho ninty-ninth transition, ant
!, = the lnocujatiop lasts six days.
= lie commenced ali these experiment,
= in November. 1882. which have thu
y lasted for three years. lie could, II i
: true. send the rabic marrow. which OF
10 The present time seems hardly prac
!. tlcabIc. bat above all there does not ex
= ist, beyond NJ. Pastcur and those em
!, ployed in his laboratory, one single per
!. son In the world CAPABLE OF undertaiinl
- = tho treatment with certainty. II
y necessary to have speoisl apparstu an,