Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-15
DR, PAUI, GREER.

''To-day is the first active day of the institute" he explained. Yesterday we had a number of members of the medical faculty here, inspecting the building and the apparatus, including the cults of virus which have been two months in prepara tion."
 ''ls the virus tho same as that cm- ployed by Pasteur ?''
 Ut is identical was with him for several years and am familiar with all his methods and especially with the preparation and application of the virus. When patient comes here, after being bitten by rabid animal, I wait two days after the day of the bite, and then, if the case is an ordinary one and has no specially severe features, I inoo- ulate him fifteen times during fifteen i successive days. In the event of the wounds being sore, inoculate eighteen days with stronger virus. I always begin with the weaker virus
 ''The philosophy of the treatment is this: You accustom the body to the poison by degrees, and then, when the rabies ultimately reaches the brain. that organ Is proof against it and is prepared to resist it. It is like the old story of King Mithridates, who ac- customed his body to poisons. so that the machinations of his enemies to kill him by that means might fail. We take the virus from a rabid animal, and, after dissection, inoculate a rab- bit with it. That Is the first genera ton and is the starting point in the series of gradations that runs through 341 generations of rabbits. Thus: We take the virus from the first rabbit after inoculation. whom the disease has reached its maximum and terminated fatally, and with it we inoculate another rabbit which is generation number two, and so on. Meanwhile the virus is gradually growing weaker, till after the 24lst passage it is in . proper state for use on the human sys. | tenn.
 This institute I founded with my own money. The first patient, as you saw, was workingman's child. While the institute is not designed as a char ity, it accepts nothing from those who are unable to pay. It has many friends among the medical fraternity here and in other large Amerioan cities, who give us their moral support"
 It is proposed in the near future to erect an edifice that will be to this country what the Pasteur Institute is i to France. M. Gibier is probably less of an enthusiast than calm, deliber- ate scient tist, who cares little for the applause of the world if he be only allowed to push forward his bacteria. | logical investigations.
 A Unique Clerical Figure,
 | One of the most unique figures in New York City is Rev. Father Ducey of St. Leo's Roman Catholic Church, ] the swell church of that faith in that town. Father Ducey presides over an aristocratic congregation where wealth | is reckoned by the hundred millions. It was this priest who was the particu- lar friend of John c. Eno the we'll known financier, now an exile from Now York, but social leader in Ment- real, having succeeded in carrying enough of money across the border with him to keep him from want, even had he not since hugely increased the amount by successful speculAtions. | At the time that Emo was in hiding in New York from the police. 1t is said that he was in the house ot his friepd. Father Duoey. Ihe truth of NAaa atete,