The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-14
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! being confined. ere: Change In dis,
position. alteration OF voice. inabtiity
to swallow. leaving home and return
ing In an exhausted and emacisted con-
clifton paralysis OF the Jaw: swallow-
ing ABNORMAL substances az woods
stones etc"
a mos. complete laboratory for dag
nosinS of rabies In suspected animals
is part OF the equipment OF tho bureaui
OF animal industry Many heads OF
suspects are here received from veterin-
arions and physicians each year. and as
soon as one arrives at the laboratory
parts of the brain are removed and ex-
amined under the microscope for GER
tain little spots or bodies discovered
| nine years ago by Professor Nexrl OF
/ the Italian University of Pavia to bs
! present In the nerve cells of the brains
/ Of raoid animals They have since been
! diseoveted in from 96 10 IS per cent
/ OF ali established cases of rabies that
| nave been investigated At the same
/ time tho old test that OF inoculatins
I rapnits with tissue from the suspected
! brain. is made The newer test Is. haw-
ever the surer and quicker. giving an
! absolute diagnosis within a fow hours,
whereas that with the rabbits requires
ten or twelve days and is valuable
only as a check upon the other process.
What Wight Have Been.
| Inc practical Importance of the newt
/ test was thus described by Dr. schroe-
/ der.
"a number Of years ago local physl4
I clan informed me By telephone that he
had under treatment an elderly woman
/ because she had been severely bitten
/ by her pot dog. which Aad suddenly
/ and without apparent cause become so
suriy, morose and irritable that it was
necessary II kin It. told the physician
to send tho dogs body to me so thar
] oh
ma ke test incubation for rabies The
| oody was sent. and l took out the brain
| ana used small portions OF 1t TO moe
/ ulate Two rabbits"
Tho rabbits became affected with
| typical rabies and died on the seven
| teenth day after incubation When
called up the physician to inform him
! that the diagnosis OF rabies was com.
plele and to advise him to send his
! patient TO Pasteur Institute for treat
nent as soon as possible. he told mo
IN very irascible manner that he did
not need my Information and that his
I patient was beyond Pasteur and all
| other Treatment; that She had died OF
! rabies four days earlier ;nan my
test rabbits, and that She had suffered
asonies such as he hoped never to wit
ness again
Tho woman died on the thirteenth
or fourteenth day after She was bitten;
! ''c oltcS We're innicted on der face.
neck and arms. Had the bodies OF
Negri been known then as they are
known now. it could have been deter
/ mined on the same day the dog was
killed that ne was affected with rabies.
and his mistress would have resorted
to Pastcur treatment without loss 90
time and would thus have escaped a
terrible DEATH
speedy recourse to the Pasteur treat
. | sfynrat.d ',,-
French bacteriologist of that name in
1852 is recommended by the bureaus
specialists to All victims OF animals
found by their laboratory tests to have
been rabid. One of the accompanying
| photographs shows a patient receiving
tho treatment It has been furnished
TO nc by we'll known bacteriolosist,
regularly engaged in this work.
Copyright. 1912. by John Elfreth
Watkins.l