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very valuable, as the Pasteur treatment is frequently delayed several 

 days, for obvious reasons, and does not always protect. In the case of 

 small wounds all the treatment probably indicated will be thorough 

 cauterization with nitric acid within twelve hours from the time of 

 infection. Our experience in dealing with those bitten by rabid animals 

 goes to show that physicians do not appreciate the value of thorough 

 cauterization of the infected wounds. 



Pasteur Treatment by Mail. For several years we have made a prac- 

 tice of sending the treatment by mail when the patients could not go 

 for treatment. The results have been good. 



But far more important than any treatment, curative or preventive, 

 for hydrophobia in man is the prevention of rabies in dogs, through 

 which this disease is usually conveyed. Were all dogs under legislative 

 control and the compulsory wearing of muzzles rigidly enforced where 

 rabies prevails, hydrophobia would soon become an almost unknown 

 disease. This fact has been amply demonstrated by the statistics of 

 rabies in countries where such laws are now in force. 



