No. 6. DKPAirrMlONT OF .AGRlClJI/rUKE. 6S3 



i;il>ies, he is siiU'ciiuj; with di'lirimn. He says, just, j^o oui of ili<- 

 i-oom aud I can Lure him, and the palieut died the next day. A post- 

 mortem examination was held and in his brain was found the worst 

 type of rabies. Rabbits were inoculated from the virus taken from 

 the brain and they died of rabies and it was discussed by a hundred 

 physicians and the gentleman who contested the diagnosis, and who 

 contests all diagnoses on the subject, had nothing to say. 



MR. MILLER: You said it can only be transmitted by a bite? 



DR. PEARSON: Yes, sir. 



MR. MILLER: Couldn't it be headed off by killing all the other 

 dogs and keeping the human i)arients away fioni those that were 

 attiicted? 



DR. PEARSON: Yes, 1 have no doubt it could. 



The SECRETARY: Can it be transmitted by Ihiowing off the 

 saliva and it getting into the skin? 



DR. 1*EARS0N: Persons liave been known, where llier(! was a 

 wound on the hand and the dog licked the hand, and it was trans 

 mitted. 



MR. HERR: The disease is not carried in the blood? 



DR. I'EARSON: The blood is almost free from the virus. It is 

 concentrated in the nervous system. It extends up the nerve duct 

 and the closer the bite is to the brain the shorter of incubation. As 

 an experiment, I inoculated two cov.s, one on the face and it took 

 her about two weeks, and I inoculated the other ou the tail and it 

 took her about two months later. 



MR. M. N. CLARK in the chair. 



MR. McGpWAN: The Executive Committee desire to make a 

 report and asks permission lo add 1<» tlie Committee on Specialists 

 the name of Col. H. C. Demming as additional Geologist, and we 

 claim that Doctor Wadsworlh will receive the assistance of an able 

 assistant. 



MR. RODGERS: I move that Col. H. C. Demming be elected by 

 this Board as Assistant Geologist. 



The motion being seconded, it was agreed to. 



MR. HOLMAN: I desire to offei- the following resolution: 



"\\'hereas, At the Spring Meeting of the State P>oard of Agri- 

 culture held at Huntingdon, June 4 and 5, 1908, the committee on 

 resolutions ollered the following, which was unanimously adopted: 



