The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-22

twelve days. Then come the cords Of il,
10, 9, S, Z, 6, 5, 4, 3. 2, and / days con-
tact with the dry air.
The principle is the same is in diph-
iberia: just this: a child that has had pin
liberia is immune to it for some time. Sim
ilarly a person with injections in their
system OF rabbit that has had rabies. as
ii were gets in the state of the child that
has had diphtheria. To put it in iansua ge
that is more popular than scientific-they
have had rabies by proxy. The dead rao-
bit has had il for the living man. The
rabbit system, now proof against a second
attack of rabies, is injected into the mans
system; so when the poison of the bite
begins there is no food for the disease to
work on The rabbit system has been
worked already; and the rabbits now
immune spinal marrow injected into the
human body renders the man proof
against the disease. Everything depends
on taking the treatment before the poison
begin to work OF three hundred cases
taking treatment, an average of one only
Will fail; and this because ID the patient
, has not come soon enough. or CD because
the body's resistance has already beeen
undermined by disease. Out of 5000 peo-
pie coming to the Pasteurs OF New York
for treatment in the recent past, il has
been necessary to treat only 1000. the
other 40 having not been exposed to
true rabies. The Pasteur Institute main
tains that as the treatment. II not dam
gerous-in certain conditions of the sys-
TENTS always unpleasant. the anxiety
and much unnecessary expense can be
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ten some one under strict and careful
observation. Kept under observation, the
dog will die after presenting symptoms
that can be easily recognized; OF he Will
live II he lives. there is no further
worry-ha has not had the rabies. IL he
dies. tho body should be sent for imme
ditate examination. when certain tests
on the head and neck will determine
within twenty-four hours whether the dis
ease was rabies.
In Norway, Sweden Holland. Switzer-
land. and especially Denmark. hydrophob-
ia has been stamped out. and is now rele-
gated 70 the bsrbarisms OF the black
death and othe medieval plaques In
Great Britain rabies almost disappeared
because all dogs entering the country
were quarantined for six months With
these regulations hydroPhobia dropped
from IL fatal cases In 1859 TO 80 IN 1sq.
10 Is in 1891 TO in 1882 But IN 1892 the
good results caused careleSsness. The reg
ulations were ignored. In 1893 there were
s cases; in 1894 L cases. il 1895 IS cases.
in 1896 s. cases IN less than six months.
But in the United States the most
progressive country in the world. where
4 Rockefeller thinks nothing OF spending
millions for scientific research to com
ba, disease. hydrcphohIa thrives as Z
fiourished in the Middle Ages Of super
stition and the earlier ages OF dsnsest
ignorance. Why First. because IL Is
under local instead Of federal court. and
an effective national quarantine is almost
impossible Second. three-9usrtsrs % the
states in the Union have neither anzrzr-
tine nor rnuEzle laws for dogs exposed 20
the contagion OF rabies. Third-snd most
important of alt-because the patient
who in nine cases out q ten is the vic
tim OF the conElunity's czrelesSn-ss and
not his own. has t. pay the fee for
Pasteur treatment instead OF the guilty
community paying IL
In New York are only two Institutions
with laboratories to afford this treatment.
the Pasteur Institute. a private and TN
endowed Hospital. and the New York
Board OF Health. supported IN part by
its fees: in part-the greater partly
the taxpayer. The hydrophobia patients