PROTECTIVE INOCULATIONS. 



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In the following table, A includes all persons treated who had been 

 bitten by an animal proved to be rabid ; B, persons bitten by animals 

 examined by veterinary surgeons and pronounced rabid; C, persons 

 bitten by animals suspected of being rabid. The figures relate to the 

 year 1890: 



Bordoni-Uffreduzzi gives the following statistics with reference to 

 the inoculations practised at the Pasteur Institute in Turin during 

 the years 1886 to 1891 : 81 persons were inoculated by the method 

 first proposed by Pasteur, with a mortality of 2.46 per cent; 925 

 persons were subsequently inoculated by the same method, but with 

 larger doses of virus, with a mortality of 1.72 per cent. Finally, 338 

 persons were inoculated with still larger doses, with a mortality of 

 0.29 per cent. 



At the Pasteur Institute in Palermo the number of persons inocu- 

 lated in the four years prior to 1891 was 662, with a mortality among 

 the inoculated of 0.6 per cent. In Bologna (1890) 210 persons bitten 

 by dogs undoubtedly mad were inoculated, with a mortality of 0.47 

 per cent. 



In the Pasteur Institute at Naples 810 persons were treated during 

 the years 1886 to 1892, with a mortality of 0.86 per cent. 



During the year 1891, 1,564 persons were inoculated at the Pas- 

 teur Institute in Paris, with a total mortality of 0.57 per cent. In 

 324 of these cases the animal which inflicted the bite was proved to 

 be rabid by experimental inoculations. 



Horsely (1889) has made a comparison of the results obtained by 

 the " intensive treatment " as compared with these by the treatment 

 first employed, and says : 



