310 ANTHRAX; AND HYDROPHOBIA. 



lent virus. The last injection consists of an emulsion made 

 from a spinal cord which was dried for only three days. The 

 treatment is really a process of immunization carried out 

 during the period of incubation. 



The emulsion is made by rubbing up 1 centimeter of dried 

 spinal cord with four or five times its bulk of bouillon until a 

 perfect emulsion results. The injection is made with a 

 syringe sufficiently large to contain the required amount of 

 the serum. No two injections should be made in the same 

 place. Needless to say that everything should first be rendered 

 sterile in order to prevent the occurrence of sepsis. The 

 injections are usually made into the hypochondriac region. 



A number of methods of immunization against rabies have 

 been proposed by different clinicians, but the results obtained 

 by Pasteur's method have thus far not been surpassed. Dur- 

 ing the year 1897, 1521 cases were immunized at the Pasteur 

 Institute in Paris in the manner described, and only one of 

 these died. In all the other years that the emulsion has 

 been used the results have been equally good, and ought to 

 convince the most skeptical that this is the only method of 

 treatment of rabies which is productive of favorable results. 



