BACTERIAL INOCULATION 301 



animal has been killed, as is commonly the case, the 

 head and attached neck should be sent to a State or 

 municipal laboratory for examination for the char- 

 acteristic " negri bodies." 



Antirabic inoculation consists of a series of daily 

 subcutaneous injections of virus prepared by emulsi- 

 fying the specially dried spinal cord of rabbits, dead of 

 rabies from a fixed virus. Rabies vaccine is best pre- 

 pared in a laboratory particularly devoted to that pur- 

 pose. A number of pharmaceutical firms and rabies 

 institutes, to-day, on request, make daily deliveries 

 in caloris bottles of the amount for administration, 

 making it unnecessary for the patient to patronize 

 an " institute " and rendering it perfectly feasible for 

 the family physician to conduct the treatment at home. 

 All that the practitioner is obliged to do is to note the 

 age of the patient, the date and hour of the bite, its 

 location and extent, if possible whether or not the 

 animal surely had rabies, and furnish these data to the 

 expert or firm about to produce the vaccine. In gen- 

 eral the " Pasteur Treatment " comprises twenty-five 

 inoculations administered over a period of three weeks. 

 On the first day three inoculations are given four 

 hours apart, on the second and third days two in- 

 jections are made at intervals of six hours; on the 

 fourth and succeeding days only one inoculation is 

 administered. 



