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 the patient receiving every day an injection prepared from the spinai 

 marrow of a rabbit, beginning with that of fourteen days' and end- 

 ing with that of five days' desiccation. 



Those 2,490 cases are subdivided according to nationaUty in the 

 following manner : 



Russia 191 



Italy 165 



Spain 107 



England 80 



Belgium 57 



Austria 5^ 



Portugal 25 



Roumania ^2.2 



United States 18 



Holland 14 



Greece 10 



Germany 9 



Turkey 7 



Brazil 3 



India 2 



Switzerland 2 



France and Algeria 1,7^6 



The number of French persons has been considerable, amounting 

 to 1,726, and it will be enough to confine ourselves to the category 

 formed by them as a basis for discussing the degree of efficacy of the 

 method. 



Out of the total 1,726 cases treated, the treatment has failed ten 

 times — namely, in the following cases : 



The children: Lagut, Peytel, Clediere, Moulis, Astier, Videau. 

 The woman : Leduc, seventy years old. 



The men: Marius Bouvier (thirty years), Clergot (thirty), and 

 Norbert Magnevon (eighteen). 



I leave out of count two other persons, Louise Pelletier and Moer- 

 mann, whose deaths must be attributed to their tardy arrival at the 

 laboratory, Louise Pelletier thirty-six days, and Moermann forty- 

 three days after they had been bitten. 



We have therefore ten deaths for 1,726 cases, or i in 170; such 



