Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-17

Some time ago the health officers of
Sheffield, England, presented to GER
tain local druggists various prescrip-
tions written by qualified men, the
prescriptions being also SO arranged
that each should include full dose of
some expensive remedy capable of
ready and accurate estimation in q mix
ture. A series of these samples in
which 100 grains of iodide of potassium
were prescribed were found on analysis
to contain 1872, 100, and rs grains, re-
spectively; the last was, therefore,
made up with hardly two-thirds of the
active ingredients ordered. OF three
samples which should have contained
l6 grains of sulphate Of quinine, one
contained 81 grains, or less than two
thirds of the prescribed amount. An
other sample which should have con-
tanned 40 grains of sulphate of quinine
had but 30 grains. Of twelve samples
OF glycerine, only five were pure and
OF the required standard; two others
were somewhat below the official
strength, containing 6 and per cent. of
water, respectively, but were otherwise
pure; two others were adulterated with
II and - per cent. of water; two were
OF full strength, but contained lime and
some non-volatile organic impurity.
REGARDING M. Pasteur's treatment
for hydrophobia DR.. Charles r. Drys-
dale, senior physician to the London
Metropolitan Free Hospital, writes as
follows to the London Times from
Paris:
Having felt some uncertainty as to the eff
cacy of NJ. Pasteurs process for combating
that fatal disease hydrophobia, I came here
! some days ago to study the question and the
evidence on the spot hasten to say that all
my doubts as to the validity of this greatest of
modern discoveries have been dispelled and
for the following reasons: NJ. Grancher, who
| has made careful analysis of the cases treat
ed up to tho 10th of June at the Rue yauquelin,
informed me that of ninety-six patients bitten
| by dogs Nhe disease of which was certified
either by the incubation of other animals
| after their death with the brain or spinal cord
proving fatal or by the fact that some animal
bitten by the dog had succumbed to hydro
phobia), of these ninety-six cases only one died
! subsequently to the curative inoculations.
This gives death rate of only l. o. per cent
Again, G44 patients had been bitten by dogs.
the madness Of which was certified to by the
veterinary practitioner of the commune, and
out of these there were three deaths, which
gives death-rate of 0.4G per cent. Taking
these two categories together, the death-rate
was only O.75 per cent, whereas from very
accurate series of statistics collected by NJ.
Leblanc, veterinary practitioner of the city of
Paris, it results that, as a rue, 1G per cent of
such cases may be expected to succumb to
hydrophobia The value, then, as NJ. Grancher
says, of the curative process of M. Pasteur
may be represented as twenty three times as
great as that of all other treatments I NAV
add that, with the exception of the prick with
the fine-pointed injection syringe, patients
have no other annoyance to complain of, as
there are absolutely no symptoms, and ten
punctures on ten successive days are sufficient.
To me the question is, therefore, judged, and
all who are in danger should submit to this
little operation