Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-06-02
In FEAR OF RABIES
Seven Boys Who Will Test
Pasteur'S Treatment.
ALL THE PATIENTS FROM ILLINOIS.

Arrival in New York Of the Victims of q
st. Joseph Mad Dog-They all Receive
Their First Injection of the Diluted
+. Thompson's Case-Towns Terrorixed
by the CANNES.
NEW YORK, June 2-Seven boys, aged
from to IA years, got off a train at the
Grand Central Station early yesterday
morning and looked about them eagerly
in Forty-seeond street. Their faces were
tanned brown and they were in plain
country clothes Two men and a woman
were with them. The party had been
travelling since Friday night from st.
Joseph, little village in Champaign
county, H., and were bound for the Pas
teur Institute at ITS West Tenth street.
Every one of the seven boys had been
bitten week ago yesterday by dog which
developed a violent attack of rabies and
died two days later
Names of the Little Patients.
The names of the children are as follows:
Marshall Gallon, boy of IL, bitten on the
left hand; Ore Shreve, IL years old, bitten
on the left wrist and hand; William Nc
Cullom, years old, bitten on the right
arm; James McCullom, Williams brother,
bitten on both arms; Charles Estes Hardy,
IL years, bitten on the fingers of the right
hand; Thurlow S. Hart, 8 years, bitten on
the little finger of the right hand; Floyd
Harvey, years old, bitten on the right
arm. The dog which bit them was I'M
doubtedly afflicted with rabies, and died in
great agony last Tuesday The wounds
were all cauterized, and DR.. Gibier notified
that the children would be sent to him
He telegraphed that they would be treated
regardless of their means, and James Nc
Cullom, the father of two of the boys, J.
Gallon, the father of the eldest of the
seven, with Miss Martha Mead, an aunt of
another boy, started east with the little
band.
The First Inoculation.
At ? p. m. yesterday there were twelve
patients at the Pasteur hospital-five men
and seven boys-awaiting their first moe
ulation. One of the 9-year-old boys was
chosen first. His right side was barred
just above the hip and hypodermic in
lection OF the weakest solution of virus
was given. The left side was treated the
same way. The boy let out one or two
screams as he felt the pricks of the needle
One by one the others received the injec-
ton. Some Of them were badly scared.
Floyd Harvey, the baby of the lot. a
bright little fellow in dresses, took it like
little man. The last of the boys to be
inoculated was young GALLON, the eldest
of them all He was so thoroughly fright
ened that his father had TO comeFand help
hold him. He had become so wrought up
that he yelled at the top of his voice when
the doctor first painted his skin with the
disinfecting solution.
Description OF the Treatment.
DR.. Gibier's institution has been open
just three months, and twenty-six cases
have been successfully treated The treat
ment consists in the injection under the
skin of tie patient of q small portion of
the spinal cord of rabbit that has been
infected with the poison of hydrophobia.
The strength of the virus is regulated by
the length of time which the rabbit has
had the virus in its system. None of the
children have developed any symptoms of
the disease yet. and DR. Gibier says that
there is no danger now. They will be in
oculated with stronger and stronger virus
for the next two weeks, when their treat
ment viii be complete.