Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-02-27
Pasteur's Treatment for RABIES.

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had among medical men, at home and
abroad, as to Pasteur's preventive
method for hydrophobla, it being al
legged as highly probably thatin many
instances patients have undergone
treatment when the dog which had in
flcted the bite was quite healthy, or,
at least, not suffering from rabies.
But DR.. Tomkins, medical officer of
health, Leicester, England, relates in
the Lancet the following record OF
three cases treated at the Pasteur In
stitute last year, which places beyond
all doubt that the animal, at the time
of inficting the injuries, was suffering
from rabies:
came into the borough of Leicester
from the adjoining suburbs, and onits
way bit two school children, q boy
and girl, on the face and hands, the
wounds upon each OF the children's
faces being OF a very extensive, lacer-
ated character. This occurred outside
the borough boundaries, and almost
at the same time it bit also a small
terrier dog. Continuing it's course in
to the town, it bit a young man Sc
verely on the hand, and shortly after
this it was killed. The patients we're
seen by medical men and the wounds
cauterized, but not until after the
lapse OF some little time. In one case
nearly an hour elapsed. saw all the
patients on the following day, and,
with the assistance of Mr.. Fraser, the
veterinary inspector to the corpora
ton, made post nortem exanlina-
ton OF the dog. The pathological ap.
pearances to the naked eye were prac-
tically nil. but the stomach contained
some pieces OF straw and other debris.
The cord and medulla were removed.
On Saturday, the 11th, l took the
three patients to Paris (taking with
me the cord removed from the dog),
and on Sunday morning they were
seen by NJ. Pasteur, and treatment
commenced in the usual manner. From
the cord several rabbits were lnoculat-
ed, and before the end OF week these
succombed to what M. Pasteur declar-
ed to be rabies. The man was kept
under treatment fourteen days, but
the two children, owing to the severity
of the wounds, were kept for twenty
| five days before being sent home. The
small terrier bitten by the dog was
kept by me under close observation
shut up, away from all other animals,
and on the fifteenth day from being
bitten it began to show signs of indis.
position (having in the interval
been apparently in good healthy,
which soon declared itself as
undoubtedyl rabies, aud the ami
NAL succumbed on the third day
from the first onset of the symptoms.
Being kept secluded and alone, 1t show
ed but few signs OF excitement, but
crawled about, refusing to eat or re-
spond when called to, paralysis OF the
lower jaw and hind limbs soon super
vening. 1t should be noted that the
wound on it's hind leg was but small
one, not larger that a threepenny piece,
and at the time OF it's death was heal
ed.
Here, then, we have indisputableev-
idence that the animal which bit these
three patients was suffering from ra-
bies, and the probabilities are, seeing
how easily the second dog was infect
ed, that at least one or other of the
three would have developed symp.
toms Of hydrophobia if the treatment
for prevention had not been. adopted
As more than twelve months have
now elapsed since the occurrence, and
| all of them remain in good health, we
may conclude they have now quite es-
capped from any untoward conse-
quences.