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1889, Eascol and another man were attacked by a dog 

 suspected of being rabid. In RascoPs case the dog's 

 teeth did not penetrate the skin, but the other man 

 was severely bitten. Neither of them wished to go to 

 the Pasteur Institute, but Eascol was compelled by the 

 French postal authorities to do so. He remained there 

 under treatment from the 9th to the 14th of March, 

 and on the 26th he resumed his duties. On April 12th 

 severe symptoms set in, with pain at the points of 

 inoculation, not at the bite, for he had not been bitten. 

 On the 14th of April he died of paralytic hydrophobia, 

 which evidently must have been caused by the Pasteur- 

 ian inoculations. The other man who refused to sub- 

 mit to this antirabic treatment remained well, though 

 he had been severely bitten by the suspected dog. This 

 is a crucial case, and comment is unnecessary. 



"Dr. Charles Bell Taylor, of Nottingham, in his 

 article in the National Review of July, 1890, gives the 

 following cases, which furnish decisive proof that hy- 

 drophobia is sometimes brought on by the Pasteurian 

 inoculations: Leopold Nee was bitten at Arras, on 

 November 9, 1886. He was subjected to the Pasteurian 

 treatment on the 17th and following days, and died of 

 hydrophobia on December 17th, 'a month later. The 

 dog that bit him was perfectly healthy. 



"In July, 1887, Arthur Stoboi, one of the scholars at 

 the Lyceum at Lublin, in Russia, was bitten by a dog 

 and immediately sent to the Pasteur Institute at War- 

 saw, where he received the usual treatment by inocula- 

 tion, and was discharged on August llth, with a certifi- 

 cate of cure, on the strength of which he was read- 



