Is Hydrophobia Preventible?

Louis Pasteur, au eminent cbcmlstof Paris, determined, axut flveyears aso, to flncl a remedy f 01 peri.sps tbe mosl dreaded of all dis ases, nc bad prevlooïly dtocovered a metbod of i". ulation Mc ■ previ Qted splenle fever in i attl au i ebeep. experimentad in the ex p ctatiou o matting tbegieat dlscovery t..at bydropbohfa could be preveDted by inoeulatlonui b 1 1 ie Tlrns of rabies. In Octobev las: PanU-ur annono cl that by the meaas s'.ated Jiydropi.i) la was preventlble Inhuman beings. " PrevJously, in June, lS8l,he bad pnblisliiil the buc efï 'ot liis plan In tbc trcatment ofdogs bi ten nrscratcbed bv mad animáis Atti.cpeie.it time M. Pasteur bas more than Beventy persone under bis care. They are botli iiki : .in I tcinitl". :inü of all ages, ranelngfn fancy to an advanced pi 1 of lüe. The l'nnch fgoverDmeiit baB piacod ! tbe Hotel Dien Hospital at Pastear's disposal forpiti nts wbose oar.d ir uire ■ressini'. Mos' ia entá live aear 'a oratorv and cali to be looculiittfd as oit, n :is iued be The discoverei ol what promisi ' íroat boon to mankin i, Is oeither asurgeonnor pbyalclau, au l employa a eurgeon to opérate ueder hls instructlons. M. Pasteur Is a natlve of Dolt', iu the Jura, auJ ie about 80 yeara of age. líe Ib an honorary Fellow cf the Royal Society of LondOD, aiul s personylly nell-known to English men ofsclenee. tbe best way o!' statine hls in. thoil- ut procedure in the matter vï, i h piv'-- hun iio'o l i throughout the irorld.is to glve a !rai s:it :in of wnat be iiimseif said of it. in o rei '"! (nl r --v . "I lirst t the polson from the braiu of a mad dot;. Wlth tliis I vaccinatc a rabblt, which wil] 'Ie v i t ! i i i fourteep days, and tbis gives the poUou lor aeecond one, wbich Is vacclnateil the ;ame 'ay. I outlnuu this practice uatll I have reacued the twentletb or twenty lilth. Fro n ',hcvc up to tlic liftieth the rabbil will die n elght days, anJ after the litüctb the animal will bscome mad witbiu Beven days. This procedure onables me to determine tbe most important feature of the treatm nt, n&mely: the ilurationof the perlod of incuhation. Thorc werfl people who were alliicted with the fatal dlsease sevcralyears sfter the accident, ivhile otbera died after a l few weeks."