New-York tribune., 1886-04-25
PASTEUR'S FAILURES,

AND HIS SLIPSHOD METHOD OF ACHIEVING
THEM
tFRoM THE KEGCLAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRrBUyE.l
PARIS, April 8.
The death from rabies of third of the Russians
under his treatment has greatly affected NJ. Pasteur.
But he will not admit that it is an argument
against::his claim to render the bite of mad
dog harmless. But the evidence of his success
in the "cured" has not beetn quite
satisfactory. 1t does not appear at all established
that the dog which bit AshwOrth at Bradford
was the one that bit the PERSONS who came
here last month, or the Irishman Garvey. From
what came ont at the Coroners inquest on Ash
worth's death fail to see the possibility of estab-
fishing the identity of the dog whose bite was
fatal. Two out of three of the Russians who haye
died had wounds which could not be cauterized or
" fred" they so deep down among glands. In
the temple of one there was also bit of a rabd
VOLTS tooth which was an uncauterzed virus cen-
re Is it Pasteur or is it the firing by village sur
geons of the woif-nHcted wounds which has so far
preserved the first company of Russiansi
Goloweski who died the day before yesterday,
was not to all appearance so badly injured as
who have survived him and who seem to be doing
well. But he was bitten fourteen hours before he
could be cautcrized. On February 2S his sister
was attacked in field where he was. He ran to
defend her and kept his hand down the VOLTS
throat, holding the root of the tongue. while she
was escaping. After she got away he was able to
climb up tree in which he remained the whole
night. The cauterization firing was
not therefore operated for long periods
and the virus had time to get into the blood. l
never saw anything more complete than the firing
operated by the veacts or country doctors OF Rus
sia Oh all the superficial wounds. The flesh was
remorselessly burned into with red-hot irons so far
Al ,l fa.x . oil
worthy of attention that the great proportion of
dog bitten persons who have been treated
at the Rue dunn got themselves cauterized
as soon as they possibly cOuld-a fact
that is not taken into account. IL
should also be observed that the mode of accept
ing evidence as to the madness of dogs would he
lqdicrously careless were this lau Ching matter
There is aisO a loose mode of treatment followed
Patients come IL heiter-sketer. Pasteur STANDS
and makes q rol-call at the door OF the room In
which NEGOTIATIONS go on. He makes a mess of
most of the foreign names As great many of the pa
tents do not understand that they should only have
one iuoculation day. they sometimes Fave several
inocuations each in the same forenoon. Pasteur not
knowing them by sight, and they entering as they
of which, by-the-by never changed.
l myself saw the lrishman Garvey twice inoculated
III the course OF the same morning. once with a d.
luton No of the virus, and once with No. 8, the
strongest of all but one also saw persons who
were they told me where, sufferers from phthisis
one day In a crowd of $50. There was woman of
lewd life In this crowd Yet there was no special
instrument for lnoculating her or the consumptive
persons. This thought astounding. seeing what
Pasteur's micrObe theories are One can only think
with terror of the possibility of reckless practl
tonersand Quacks taking up Pasteur smethod. what
an amount of rabies would be let loose by them on
the world! Tanned" rabies, you know, may be-
come wild" again according to the animal that it
passes through.
For these considerations no favorable conclusion
should be lightly jumped to. There Is a tendency
10 go with hop, skip and jump the whole length
No oil hn nns
of all the Russians, feel since the third has died
that it is sacred duty to reserve Judgment. also
feel IT duty to add that saw numbers of frivolous
cases treated serious at the Paseur laboratory;
The sons and daughter-n-law and grandcblld
Of a London doctor. Austin Key, were licked by
Grancher to noculate them at Pasteur's with the
same instrument that pIicked the flesh OF the
woman OF lewd life and the consumptye persons;
All Will be reported as serious cases 10 the Conseu
dHygiene. You know all about the adventure OF the
four children from Newark n. j.. and tnat here Is
no proof that the dog hat bit them WWas mad;
of paralysis of the lungs. Its Paris correspondent
received this information from the Russian doctor
Samaleia, who kept back the fact that rabies
caused the paralysis The post mortem examna-
tOn was made to-day, but the result far has been
kept a secret at the hospital where Gooweski died:
NJ. Pasteur was at a sitting of the Council of
! Health reading a paper on his inoculations when
the news of Goleweskls death was brought HIM.
| He SD greatly concerned that some of his col
leagues feared he might haye another paralyic at
tack. He at once admi tied that he has not yet
| learned how to tame" wolf rabies. But he did
not take the fact that the Ted-hot irons had not
| been used IN cauterizng gandular regions into
which the VOLTS fangs had penetrated. | have not
heard that the Bradford man who was bitten by a
dog supposed to be mad and preferred to be treated
in London 10y system of steam baths to coming
to Paris with Garvey, has died.
Pasteur has done great things in ferinents. But
cannot think, supposlng he is able TO cure
rabies that his method is the last effort OF science
III this direction. If yon saw the trepanDed dogs
rabbits and guinea pigs which are used AS cutivat
ing ground for virus, you would agree with me.
The rabbits soon get numb. But the other poor
brutes suffer greatly that the idea their misery
is for the good of humanity does not reconcile
10 IL. The weight of woe that is thrown Oh them
Is prOdIgous Pasteur does not seem
dcmoralized by what lie does. But | AN assured
that he keeps his conscience quiet by Catholic
works of pIety and charity to human beings He is
constantly giving away small sums of money to
poor people. He has an excellent heart But man
Of poorer moral nature could not fail to be entirely
demoralized by the daily sacrifices Pasteur makes
OH the altar of science. He told Inc that should he
found his institute he will have to keep III 1t at
least forty rabbits and guinea pigs aid large num-
Der of dogs in a tIepanned state. If you saw the
guinea pigs ard dogs III this condition you would
feel like the saints under the altar who kept Oh
crying: How long. OH Lord! How longf