GENERAL CONSIDERATION OF FILTRABLE VIRUS 



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The treatment at the New York Department of Health is as 

 follows: 



The severity or mildness of cases is estimated from the depth 

 and degree of laceration of the wounds, also from their location 

 bites about the face and upper extremities bing the most dangerous. 



During the course of such treatment patients may show trouble- 

 some erythema about the point of injection and occasionally back- 

 ache and muscular pains. Treatment need not be omitted unless these 

 symptoms become excessive. 



The efficiency of the Pasteur treatment in rabies is no longer 

 problematical. According to Hogyes, 50,000 people have been 

 treated within ten years, with an average mortality of 1 per cent. 



Although the method described above is the one which is exten- 

 sively used in all established institutes for the treatment of rabies, 



