The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-09
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
PAUL aIBIsR, AMERICA's PAsTEUR,
AND HIS INSTITUTE.


AND HIS INSTITUTE.
The Sporting Brigade OF Wall Street
and Some OF Its Exploits-washinz-
ton Conner as Fisherman-Father
Ducey, a Noted Catholic Priest, and
BIS Millionaire CONGREGATIONAL Dig
nified Prelate.
CCopyri0htl
New YORK, March s.-Americans who
are so unfortunate as to be bitten by rapid
dogs need no longer 60 to Paris to escape
the terrors Of hydrophobia- A longtime
pupil and associate of NJ. Pasteur, DR..
Paul Gibier, who has been signally honored
BY the French government on various occa-
sions, has just founded a Pasteur institute in
New York, where the victims Of rabies can
be treated on the same principles and
with the same virus as in Pasteur's own
laboratory.
/ called at the American branch of the
Pas eur institute yesterday, the day OF its
formal opening. DIR. Gibler, assisted bv
his two associates. DIR. @. Van Setback Of
the New York Medical school, and DR.. A.
Liautard. director of the American Veter-
mary college, was treating a patient a
boy of about 10 years of age, who two
days before had been bitten by a stray dog.
that ate ward proved to be rabid. The
little1fellow was placed in the operating
chair, and, although he bore the ordeal If
incubation bravely, he could not repress a
slight scream when the knife punctured the
skin during the injection of the virus In a
few minutes it was all over and the patient
led by his father, poor worki2gman, left
the room smiling, and feeling that great
danger had been passed
M Gibier Is q short, dark-complexioned
man, with head not unlike that Of Pasteur
| himself, but he is much younger. Indeed.
this savant seems to DO hardly yet 80 years
old. He has dark eyes, coal black beard
and hair, and teeth of unusual purity and
Whiteness.
tod ~ is the first active day of the in
stitute," he OK planned. 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 prepare
tion."
gs'Is the virus the same as that employed
by Pasteurp
ut is Identical l was with him for
several years and am familiar with all his
methods and specially with the preparation
and application of the virus When a
patient comes here, after being bitten by a
rabid animal, wait two days after the day
of the bite. and then, If the case is an ordi-
nary one and has no specially severe fea-
lures, inoculate him fifteen times during
fifteen successive days. II the event of the
wounds being sore, l lnoculate eighteen
DAYS with stronger virus. l always begin
with the weaker ?irus.
"The philosophy of thestreatment is this:
You accustom the body TO the poison by de-
z ees and then, when the rabies ultimately
reaches the brain, that organ is proof
against it and is prepared to resist it. 1t is
like the old story of King Mithridates,
who accustomed his body to poisons so
that the Vaccinations of his enemies to
kill him by that means might fail We
take tee virus from a rabid animal,
and, after dissection, inoculate a rabbit
with it. That is the first generation
| and is the starting point in the series of
| gradatiols that runs through PAL genera
tions of rabbits Thus: We take the virus
| from the first rabbit after incubation,
when the disease has reached its maxi mum
and terminated fatally and with it we
| inoculate another rabbit which is genera
| tion number two, and SO on. Meanwhile
| the virus is gradually growing weaker, till
after the 24lst passage it is in a proper
state for use on the human system.
This institute founded with my own
money. The first patient, as you saw, was
a workingman's child. While the institute
was not desig ed as charity, it accepts
nothing from those who are unable to paw.
| 1t has many friends among tho medical fra
| ternity here and in other large American
| cities who give us their moral support"
1t Is prop sed in the near future to erect
an edifice that will be TO this country what
the Pasteur institute is in France. NJ
Gibier is probably less of an enthusiast than
a calm, deliberate scientist, who cares little
for the applause of the world ii he be only
allowed to push for ward his METEOROLOGICAL
Investigations.
The new institute will have all the ap-
planes Of the French parent organization
at its command, and nothing will be done
in the dark.
Several years ago DIR. Gibier was COM
missioned by the French government to
investigate the yellow fever in Florida.
This he did and sent in a volume Of reports
that are esteemed in France as of the great
est value to the faculty.
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 it'll in this town. Father
Ducey presides over an aristocratic ccngre-
| CATION, where wealth is reckoned by the
hundred millions. IL was this priest who
was Cne particular friend OF JOhn &. Emo,
the well-Know n fnancler, now an exile from
| New York, but social leader in Mon
treal, having succeeded in carrying enough
| of money across the border with him to
keep him from want, even had he not since
added hugely, increasing the amount BY
successful speculations At the time that
Emo was in hiding IN New York from the
police, it is said that he was in the house of
dis friend, Father Ducey. The truth of this
statement has never been clearly estab-
lished.
DIR. Ducey's parish was formerly part Of
the parish ruled over by the even more IA
nous priest, DR.. McGlynn, and ia
sometimes known as the fashion
able" Catholic church Of New York
city; but this is owing to tho marked
peculiarities Of its rector rather than t. any
other cause. With the exception of st.
Patrick's Cathedral, it has larger attend
ance of Protes ants than any otter. The
Cathedral, with its great organ and splen-
didly trained choir, is much visited by men
and women Of ali denominations who love
good music.
The daily round of Father Ducey's life is
in many respects unlike that of any other
priest in New York, aside from pastoral
work, Of course. At Q o'clock every morn
ing you may, by calling at his rectory, see
hin as he is when he is at work. Ere
quently the cassock he wears is frayed and
dingy Of color. His manner is that Of the