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

the Notwithstanding and world-beneht-
ing discoveries which have developed
on the rue Dulot during the past five
years" Pasteur's best known act was
the declaration in 1884 that he had dis
covered certain remedy for hydropho-
bia. He declared what was not true,
and cruelty deceived the world, In
the Institute Pasteur' are kept every
instant of time, day and night, vast
numbers of dogs, rabbits, sheep, goats,
guinea pigs, white rats, chickens and
pigeons, tortured with almost every
conceivable disease that may be arti-
ficially engendered. On the first day
of last month I went through any num-
Der of rooms there, crowded with cages
of animals Gin the aggregate there were
probably thousands), most of which
had been experimental on, and may of
which had had agonizing vivisections
performed on them. The amount of
animal agony that is daily caused in
that. one institution is practically in
finite, So much for that side. Now,
what of the other? What advantages,
other than notoriety, money and a
home to Pasteur, have come from all
these animal tortures? l hold in my
hand list of 27O people who have died
after undergoing Pasteur's sure cure
for hydrophobia, and have no doubt
that many Of them, especially the ear
| lier ones, did die in consequence of
Pasteur's alleged cure"
''F'rom what source is the list of
which you speak compiled?"
| Largely from the Annals of the
Pasteur Institute itself. DR.. Lauder
Brunton, who is believer in the eff
cacy of the Pasteur treatment for by
drophobia, paid to this list the high
compliment of testifying to its accu-
racy before the house of lords commit
tee on rabies in 1887. 1t cannot be
claimed to be unduly hostile to Pas
tours side of the subject.
"Dr. A. Sutand of Paris is one of the
leading physicians of that city, and he,
in the most positive manner, condemns
| the whole treatment and the theory on
which it is based. His argument seems
to me unanswerable. Here are hun
dreds of men, women and children be-
ing inoculated daily with the virus of
rabies-Ito what purpose? Is rabies
absolutely stopped? No. Is it in the
least diminished? No. Right there,
in the department of France, where the
Pasteur institute is located and at
work, the amount of hydrophobla is
not diminished. Surely, if Pasteur
had invented a cure for hydrophobia,
! that dreaded disease would be at least
diminished The Jain community in
India has recently sent a most eloquent
| petition to the Earl of Elgin against the
1 instituting of any Pasteur institute
among them"
''Of what does them after injected in
| to the patients consist?"
1t is supposed to consist of a prepa-
ration of the spinal cords of rabbits
/ that have died of artificialy induced
hydrophobia. 1t was, in fact. origin
ally just that. So many victims of the
Pasteur trea tment died of rabies, how
ever, in many cases when they had.
undergone treatment without being Bit
| ten Gas you will be surprised to learn
is frequently the case. that Pasteur
became alarmed at the results. 1t is
not publicly announced just what
change was made in the treatment, hut
as the deaths subsequently became less
than they We're, 1T is frequently assert
ed and commonly believed that the mat
ter injected into the patients is moth
ing but a harmless milky liquid, absoI-
4 utely free from anything as deadly as
Pasteur's accidents have shown the
/ spinal cord of animals dead of rabies
to be.
fIt seems to me that the days Of the
lof ,yio 1,,1o+ rfT 1a CT ~
by for all educated people who are at
all abreast of the times. When you
ask a scientific, gentleman in France
what he thinks of Pasteur, his answer
is the usual shrug of the shoulders and
a smile.
''To return for one moment to the
matter injected in to the patients. Fear
Of liability for the deaths which re-
suited was what drove Pasteur to cease
the use of the dangerous, death-raden
spinal cord; the precise cause of this
fear was that many scientific men of
worldwide fame, such as Virchow
Peter, Sutand, and our own DR.. Dulles,
loudly declared that so far from cur
ing hydrophobia, Pasteur was giving
it. He dared not continue in the path
NE was gong.
"Pasteurism is failure. DR.. Charles
Bell Taylor of England says: Pasteur's
treatment for hydrophobia is the most
extraordinary delusion which has af-
flicted men of science for centuries
"Pasteur is not doctor; he is a mere
chemist; yet men who know this just
as we'll as do, speak of him as the
great physician etc, because it looks
we'll in print.
"One of the foremost physicians Of
France was Prof. Peter, who has re-
Gently died. He found that inside of
three months Pasteur's NEGOTIATIONS
had killed IL persons. could go on in
definitely with details, but there is no
need The statistics published for the
past ten years show rnequivocally that
the Pasteur system is not only fail
ure, but that it is worse--that it has
caused the loss of many valuabl elves.
The mortality from hydrophobia has
increased in and around Paris. Pas
teur has invented new disease, which
is called 'Hydrephobia of the Labora-
tory" OF this disease the symptoms
in some important respects are differ
emit from those of rabies. Of this dis
ease many of Pasteur's patients have
died, showing conclusively that Pas
tours inoculations have not simply al