The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-12

remoteSt particle by cauterization? Be-
sides, it seems to me that my magma
ton would remain constantly haunted
by the hydrophobia spectre which
would perpetually remind me that there
was no prescription available against.
that ilalady SO long as the germ re
NAMED
.'Dr. Thomas Dolan, just mentioned,
said in a letter to the British Medical
Journal: M Pasteur has treated
large number of persons bitten by nom
rabid doge. He has also treated a
number who were not even bitten, but
who had been licked by dogs He has
even injected with his bouillion persons
never bitten, but who submitted to the
process through curiosity. He has
ventured to treat these persons with a
virus, said to be even more potent than
the virus of the rabid stray dog. .
This is not only strange, but it even
reduces the value of his virus to an abb
surdity. If the virus had protective
virtues, it should have manifested itself
in some way. If the virus were in
jected, SO as to counteract in any way
another virus already in the system,
then it would be of no use in the case
of those persons bitten by non-rabid
dogs, or in the case of those not bitten
by a dog. Yet we are assured in the
face of such manifest objections that
M Paeteur continues his injections,
and exposes all of these persons to the
dangers Of virus so intense as to rival
that of the wandering rabid dog. What
Is the explanation? M. Pasteur has
been injecting all this time a sterilized
bouillon; and I may say that it Is for
tunate for his patients that he has been
so doing This confirms exactly what
/ said in the beginning-viz., that Pas
teur was not inoculatlng people with
the virus of rabid animals, but was
using a harmless placebo. Further
more he was driven and frightened into
this course by the 200 and odd known
deaths that followed the earlier treat
nent, and by the exposures of his
course by such men as Sutand, Peter,
Wicklow, Dulles and Dolan."
Are the public freely admitted to the
Pasteur institute in PARISH
ITO certain parts of it they are
may say that in all my long and varied
experience / have never entered an in
stitution where the general atmosphere
seemed as strikingly unscientific as at
the Pasteur institute; the general
course Of thing is slipshod and sloven1y
For instance, animals dead of rabies
are left lying about, covered with YER
min. Cats, I was expressly told, were
inoculated with hydrophobia, and all
lowed to run at large. Only think of
it; frequently rabbits that have the dis
ease are left in open cages from which
they can escape and run about the
grounds. The information given there
by the attaches is also very carelessly
and, in fact, untruthfully, impaired. A
year ago, one of the principal men then
told me that Roux was Pasteur's SON
fn-law; this year, another man denied
that Roux was married at all. In
dozens of minor ways the contradic-
lions in which the attendants at the
Pasteur institute entangle themselves
show beyond a doubt that these men
are not even moderately truthful They
further seem to show that definite and
decided objections exist on the part of
the management to allowing the public
to know the truth as to much of the
actual working of the institution"
"What have you to say of anthrax? q"
''It is true that Pasteur discovered a.
so-called prevention treatment of an
thrax. but it is not true that it has
been of any service, or, when faithfully
carried out, anything but a source of
danger and disaster wherever it has
been adopted. So clearly has this been
demonstrated, that the system has been
emphatically condemned by the Ger
man and English commissioners ap-
pointed to inquire into it, and it has
actually been prohibited by the Hun
garian commission, because, first, the
spores of an anthrax are practically in
destructible; second, when the spores
and bacilli of this microbe are injected