The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-20
WAS RABIES SURE ENOUGH.
InOcuIated Rabbits Show the Sym
toms COncIusiveIy.
sueosssor. to FisId- Kshler q Co.

AnOcutaIe0 HaObIts snow the sym
toms ConcIusiveIy.
A couple of dead rabbits laid on a
table in the laboratory Of the health
department yesterday afternoon and
number of physicians dropped in at odd
times and asked what appeared to the
G i OBJ e reporter any number of odd
questions plentifu1ly interested with
Latin medical terms. Dr. Price and
Dr.. Knauff, who were in charge of the
laboratory, took sharp pointed instru-
ments and pointed out to the medical
visitors various portions of the brains
of the rabbits and talked about serum
the condition of the animals larynx
and other things of no particular in
terest to the average citizen.
The rabbits were the two which We're
inoculated with a portion of the spinal
cord of little Amelia Branch on Oct. 2
and 3, and both Of the animals died
with every symptom of rabies. One of
the rabbits died Sunday night and the
other yesterday morning. DR.. Price
and DR.. Knauff are authority for the
statement that both Of the animals had
rabies and that their death was the re-
suit of being inoculated with the virus
from the spinal cord Of Amelia Branch,
who died from the bite Of a rabid dog
at the city hospital three weeks ago.
DR.. RothrOck, who made the inocu-
ldL1OIi, was OI the opinion LHdl as the
rabbits showed no signs of rabies after
the twelfth day that neither the
Branch girl or Joseph Lombardo, who
were bitten by the same dog, had died
from the effects Of rabies The death
of the animals with all the symptoms
of rabies settles the doubt which ex-
listed in the minds Of a number of
physicians as to the cause of the chill
dren's death. The rabbits exhibited all
IF r.oh fOcs CT in
the books and they died seventeen days
after being inoculated. Both animals
had paralysis of the hind legs, which
gradually extended over the entire
body. One doctor who was pres
ent during the afternoon, said it was
mistaken idea that the rabbits would
exhibit the same symptoms as dogs
which died from rabies The stomach
Of one of the animals contained a large
quantity Of saw dust which was
another pointer as to the disease being
rabies, as all dogs known to have the
disease always ate foreign substances
in the last stages of the rabies DR.. H
J. O'Brien and DR.. Abbott said the
death of the rabbits carried out the
opinion they had formed after the
death of the Branch girl and young
Lombardo, that in both cases death
was caused by rabies
The time Of Drs. Price and Knauff
was taken up yesterday afternoon in
inoculating three more rabbits with a.
portion of the spinal cord Of the dead
rabbits. This was done, the doctors
stated, simply as a scientific expert
ment and not to endeavor to prove that
the animals did not have rabies
Those Of the profession who have
taken interest in the case are feeling
very much pleased that Jennie Shafer
the third child who was bitten by the
same dog as the Branch and Lombardo
children, was taken to the Pasteur in
-stftute for treatment Had she not
been given the treatment 1t Is the
opinion that she might have shared the
same fate as the two others. Speaking
of the possibility Of the Shafer child
being attacked with the disease after
the Pasteur treatment, DR.. Sweeney and
DR.. Price both stated that only one out
of every two hundred who had been
bitten by mad dogs and been treated
by the Pasteur treatment in this coun-
try ever showed signs of the disease.
At the institute in Paris only three
cases out of total of over six hun
dred were attacked by the disease
after treatment.