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"The 'Pasteur method' depends for its commercial success on the 

 most colossal pretensions and distortion of facts and figures. Among its 

 'patients' are numbered those bitten by 'rabid' dogs and those bitten by 

 animals only 'suspected!'. Again, dogs are often 'found' to have been 

 rabid by postmortem examination and by inoculating other animals with 

 portions of their brain or spinal cord, both of which methods are denounced 

 as inconclusive by leading scientists, such as Dr. Colin, of Alfort, and Pro- 

 fessor Fleming, of England. Many substances, such as common soap, 

 when inoculated into animals, produce meningitis, the symptoms of which 

 are almost identical with those of rabies; Surgeon-General Sternberg has 

 even produced these symptoms in rabbits with his own saliva! Moreover, 

 it is well known that, with no treatment whatever, from 90 to 9 5 per cent 

 of those bitten by actually 'rabid' dogs recover. All these facts tend to 

 show that the statistics of the 'Pasteur Institutes' are absolutely farcical, 

 and as a consequence they are ridiculed by every leading scientific author- 

 ity who has carefully investigated, and who charge them with actually 

 causing 'hydrophobia' in many patients by their inoculations with diseased 

 animal matter. This pernicious and most dangerous principle of deliber- 

 ately introducing into the life-current septic matter from 'rabid' animals, 

 has without doubt been the cause of numerous cases of 'paralytic rabies' 

 or 'laboratory rabies' in patients. The late Dr. Michel Peter, the greatest 

 clinical expert in France, said: 'Pasteur does not prevent hydrophobia; 

 he gives it.' This opinion was indorsed by such scientific leaders as Dr. 

 T. M. Dalon, F. R. C. S., Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, Dr. Charles 

 Bell-Taylor, Surgeon-General Charles Gordon, of England, and Professor 

 Von Frish, of Vienna. The celebrated Dr. A. Lutaud, editor-in-chief of the 

 'Journal de Medecine de Paris,' said in that journal on September 16, 

 1899, referring to the savants at the Pasteur Institute: "They have not 

 diminished the mortality; they have augmented it, in causing the 'mad- 

 ness of laboratories,' very often fatal with which they have inoculated a 

 great number of individuals.' 



"As the clanger of 'hydrophobia' in man has been viciously exag- 

 gerated, so has been that of 'rabies' in the dog. It is safe to say that at 

 least 99 out of every 100 alleged cases are cases of ill treatment, heat 

 prostration, fits, thirst, stomach trouble, epilepsy, or similar affections. 

 A dog with true 'rabies' does not froth at the mouth; neither does he go 

 out of his way to attack, but gives every indication of wishing to be let 

 alone. These facts, however, have no weight with some people, whose 

 arrogance and bigotry regarding our relation to the 'lower animals' pass 

 comprehension. One swears the life of one child is 'worth all the dogs in 

 the world;' another would have all the clogs in the state muzzled on ac- 

 count of one case of alleged 'rabies.' Man spends his life in abusing and 

 slaughtering his fellow-creatures; but, for-sooth, if some unfortunate mem- 

 ber of that species most faithful to man, wild with ill treatment, or the 

 disease above mentioned, rushes he knows not whither, beset by imagin- 

 ary foes, then Man joyfully seizes the opportunity to attack the sufferer 

 with every convenient weapon, as in former days, under like conditions, 

 he treated his fellow-man! And then, if bitten by his victim, he resorts 

 to an 'institute,' founded on and perpetuating the horrible sufferings of 

 artificially maddened creatures (a supply of which, in a state of madness 

 is constantly kept on hand, whether 'used' or not), whose poisoned tissues 

 he absorbs into his circulation as an antidote. Is not this a specacle for 

 Gods and men?" 



There is no doubt in this world but what two-thirds of the Na- 

 tional Belly-aching is the direct result of imagination. There is no doubt 

 but what if a man can hypnotize another man, if he has the power he 

 can and does hypnotize himself, and if this be true, and it is an accepted 

 truth, then all some nerve-wracked fellow has to do who insists that some- 

 thing is the matter with him, is to imagine that a clog bit him and then 

 keep following up the idea and finally die like a dog might die with 

 rabies. That is the long and the short of the matter in this world 



