The number of persons who have been given the anti-rabic treatment here is more than twenty-five thousand.
In point of fact, the preparation and use of the anti-rabic serum is only one of many aims of the institution, whose full scope is as wide as the entire domain of contagious diseases.
Galtier's method of intravenous injection of therabic saliva, which seems to have proved effectual in sheep and rabbits, utterly failed in the hands of Lussana and {905} Pasteur in dogs.
Finally, it was established that hydrophobia could be given (and almost as rapidly as by trepanning) by inoculatingrabic nervous matter into the circulation of the blood by a vein.
The existence of the rabic virulence in the brain substance placed, on the contrary, at the disposal of the experimenter, an abundance of the virus, in a state of great purity and capable of long preservation.
It inspires the sure and certain hope that, as regards the attenuation of the rabic virus, and the rendering of an animal, by inoculation, proof against attack, the success of M.
Now, the saliva loses its rabic virulence in twenty-four hours.
A doleful, sharp howling was the first indication of the rabic voice, which is but one long cry of suffering and appeal, mingled with barkings from hallucinations.
Of eight unvaccinated dogs, six succumbed to the intravenous inoculation of rabic matter.
To Pasteur it seemed, in the case of the experiments made with the mucus from the child's palate, to be simply an accompaniment of the rabic virus.
In the rabic pulp, however, besides the granulations which are found in profusion in the healthy pulp, there seem to exist little grains of extreme minuteness, almost imperceptible even with the strongest microscopes.
The idea then occurred to Pasteur and his assistants, to inoculate the virulent rabic matter in its pure state under the dura mater on the surface of the brain of a dog.
Delearde strongly advises any one bitten by a mad dog to abstain from alcohol, not only during the anti-rabic treatment but for some months thereafter, lest the alcohol counteract the effects of the protective serum.
It appears that the strength of the rabic virus, as determined by inoculation, is constant in the same species of animal, but is modified by passing through another species.
In this method not the rabic poison itself, as in the Pasteur treatment, but the protective substance formed is injected into the tissues.
Of twenty-three vaccinated dogs, not one was attacked with the disease after inoculation, in any fashion, with the most virulent rabic matter procurable.
Of five unvaccinated dogs, all died after inoculation, by trepanning, of the brain with rabic matter.
The Mozárabic Ritual is celebrated six times a year in another chapel, La Capilla de Talavera.
The other is capped by a dome, designed by El Greco, that painter of the weird, and under which is the chapel wherein the Mozárabic ritual is celebrated daily at 9 A.
Cardinal Ximenes re-established the Mozárabic Ritual, which is celebrated in the Capilla Mozárabe, as a reminder to the Pope that Spain did not owe implicit allegiance to Rome.
In a second set the vaccination and alcoholization were carried on simultaneously, a fatal dose (as proved by control experiment) of rabic cord was then injected, when it was found that little or no immunity had been acquired.
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