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died, subsequently, from hydrophobia, owing (M. Pas- 

 teur said) to his having come for treatment too late. 

 But other patients, who came for treatment after 

 periods longer than eleven days, and did not die, were 

 claimed as cures. 



"Any kind of treatment can be made to appear suc- 

 cessful in this way, and any quack remedy for hydro- 

 phobia, such as that of the Rev. Dr. Verity, mentioned 

 by Dr. Dolan in his work, entitled "Pasteur and Rabies, 

 might show a similar, or even a larger proportion of 

 alleged cures. Dr. Verity, indeed, claimed to have 

 treated more than 2,000 cases without a single failure, 

 so that, if the statistics are to be believed, his record 

 is much better than that of Pasteur. 



"The Pasteurian system of treatment has been ex^ 

 tensively carried out in France since 1885, and had it 

 been of any value it ought to have reduced the mortality 

 from hydrophobia in that country. The very reverse 

 is the case, for the average annual mortality from thai 

 disease in France from 1850 to 1885 was twenty-three, 

 while from 1885 to 1890 it rose to thirty-nine, namely 

 twenty-two among Pasteur's patients, and seventeen 

 not treated by his method. Thus Pasteur's treatment 

 has caused the death rate from hydrophobia to rise 

 by sixteen per annum in his own country. It is worthy 

 of note that a similar result has invariably followed 

 wherever Pasteur Institutes have been established. 

 Particular attention should be given to this argument, 

 as it can neither be contradicted nor explained away, 

 and it plainly shows the utter worthlessness of the 

 Pasteurian treatment. 



