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and going to the hall door invites the waiting candidates for inoc- 
ulation to enter in file. The names are calied from the ledger and 
the designated persons pass one by one to Dr. Grancher for the 
inoculation. The doctor uses a needle-pointed hypodermic syringe, 
which is thrust under the skin, and the contents are gradually 
injected. The patients are called by Pasteur in the order of their 
arrival, so that each receives the virus of the proper strength. The 
man is kind and bustling, with ready sympathy for the timid. If 
a little one sobs or whimpers, some trincket or coin is produced 
from the waistcoat pocket, which, with the accompaniment of a 
pat upon the head, is given the little one as an assurance of kind- 
ness ; sometimes one does not have to watch very closely to see the 
gathering drops of sympathy in the doctor’s eyes. 
According to the latest statistics at command, closing April 
22d, 1,335 persons have been vaccinated according to the progres- 
sive treatment adopted by the renowned investigator—thirteen from 
America. Each patient receives ten to fourteen inoculations on as 
many successive days. 
In a lecture by Dr. Grancher, Pasteur’s medical adviser and 
colleague before mentioned, the persons bitten and vaccinated were 
arranged in three classes : 
First.. Those bitten by the dog of which the spinal cord was 
sent to Pasteur’s laboratory, inoculated in rabbits, and caused death 
by hydrophobia; or those who had been bitten by a dog, the bite 
of which had caused death by hydrophobia in other animals or 
man. 
Second. Those bitten by a dog which before or after death 
had been examined and declared rabid by a veterinarian. 
Third. Those bitten by a mad dog which had escaped obser- 
vation. 
In the first group were ninety-six patients of which one died. 
In the second 644 subjects and three deaths, a mortality for the 
two of 0.75 per cent. 
It is asserted according to the best statistics that sixteen per 
cent. of those bitten by rabid animals die, a showing in Pasteur’s 
treatment not to pass unheeded. The third series, though still 
more favorable, is not discussed because little dependence can be 
placed upon the reality of the disease. The mortality among 
patients bitten on exposed surfaces (the face and hands) was in the 
