The weekly true Democrat., 1908-04-24
TIE STATE BOARD
ON HYDR RoPHOBlA.
FuIl Details Of the Trsatmont and
Hkstory Of the cass Given IN
FloFida Health Notes.

FloFida Health Notes.
Times Union:--T That q genuine case
Of hydrophObia has been successfully
treated in this city under the supervis-
Of the State board Of health Of Florida
viii prove a source Of satisfaction to
many people, especially when e Is
known that It Is the world-famOud Pas
teur treFtment that is given without
the necessity Of sending the patient of
10 Pasteur institute in another city.
The story Of the case and the success
ful treatment by the State board Of
health is given in full in the April num-
Der of the FLORIDA Health Notes, the Of
fetal bulletin Of the State board of
health, and from this detailed history
of the case there can be no doubt Of the
case being a genuine attack Of hydro
phobia.
Besides the case referred to there
have been two other cases Of genuine !
hydrophobia here in Jacksonville with !
IN the past few weeks, wherein the pa |
tients nave been successfully treated by |
the State board of health. One of these |
was a lady residing in Riverside and |
the other was child, also. residing in |
Riverside.
AT MINIMUM EXPENSE.
TIE State board of health pays for
the Pasteur treatment and it does not
cost the individual anything. Hereto
fore patients have been at considerable
expense to secure the Pasteur treat
ment, but now they can have it at
home.
It is very probable that the board
will arrange TO have this treatment
available in the most pOpulOus centers
Of the State. If this is done due notice
will be given concerning the same.
AS the time Of year is approaching
when dogs show disposition to roam
at large more than in the winter
months, it will be we'll for all persons
TO keep a watch out for stray dogs. In
case of a person being bitten by dog,
the animal should be killed as soon as
possible and the head sent to the labor ,
atory of the State board of health for !
examination Great care should be ex-
elcised in shipping the head of such
SdOSs. The head should not be shipped Z
until il has been packed in ice and then
Z should be shipped by express and a Y
letter sent to the board In this citv Civ Q
ing all the details of the case. The
head should be we'll packed ice or it l
cannot be shipped. Enough ice should
be used TO last for the entire trip. 4
STORY FROM HEALTH NOTES. h
The following is the story published
IN the April number Of Florida Health
Notes: h
Last November it was announced ii
that the State board of health had made n
arrangements with the city of New r,
York whereby hydrophobia can be "
treated at home. And what the Pas c,
teur is was explained at that time as F
follows: s
.''In the first place it is a preventa- It
tive-nOt a cure. n
''The time to give the treatment is h,
Immediately after the individual is bit M
ten by mad animal. After one is BIT VI
ten by a mad dog, say, there is a lapse 10
o. eighteen TO thirty days before the dc
disease develops. IL Is during this Ell
time that the Pasteur treatment is w
given. When the disease develops it is M
eternally. too late. VII
"The principle of the treatment is to IN
render the individual immune to the
iisease, just as one is rendered immune te
% smallpox by vaccination, or immune pb
o plague by Haffkiue's serum. fo
This immunity is produced as fol- br
0Ws: A rabbit is innoculated with hy-
rophobia. After certain length of
AS NiSo' A4lo BIdl0 ana spinal
ord are now taken out, for that is the ms
art that contains the hydrophObia poi-
on. If portion of this be ground up tor
nd injected into another rabbit it wifi dle
rodnee another case Of hydrOphobia.
WILL likewise produce hydrOphobia If sec
lJected into other susceptible animals, Il,
/ man. the
This brain and spinal cord then must tee
1dergo treatment to attenuate it; that the
, 70 reduce the poisonous principal so /
lat " Will not produce an active case WIS
.hydrophobia when injected: for IL is
rs same brain and spinal cord that is q n
leo m the treatment. The longer it Is
subjected to appropriate treatment MOI
e more attenuated it becomes. When II,
II just fourteen days old II is the the
ght age for the first dose. The pa the
mt can take stronger dose the sec Fas
q time than he can the first. So the 1
copd dose is given from preparation er I
rpeen days old. The third dose from SON
tWelve-day preparation and so on Z "a
Wn until the patient can take q fresh ls d
eparatlon. This means that he Is inn tlen
me 70 hydrophobia. And ali this oc- indi
q between the time the patient Is III
ten and the time that Il would other tlca
se take the disease to develob."s the
history OF FRsT CASE. -
The first case has just had treatment NOR
npieted. and is OF more than ordi- trea
n interest. N,