THE PHILIPPINE 



journal of Science 



B. Medical Sciences 



Vol. A' jSTOVEMBEE, 1910 No. 



HYDROPHOBIA IN THE PHILIPPINES. 



By F. W. Dudley 1 and E. E. Whitmore. 2 



The question of whether rabies does or does not occur either among 

 the lower animals or man in the Philippines has been unanswered for a 

 long time, and, while a number of medical men have been convinced that 

 rabies is present in this Archipelago and considerable clinical evidence 

 in favor of that belief has been collected, still several attempts to demon- 

 strate scientifically its occurrence have failed; furthermore, several trials 

 having for their end the keeping alive of a strain of "fixed virus" imported 

 from Japan, have been unsuccessful, the virus either did -not kill rabbits 

 in Manila at all, or ceased to do so very soon after its importation. The 

 question therefore arose as to whether the virus of rabies could continue 

 in a viable condition in this locality. 



One of us, as the result of an extensive clinical experience in these 

 Islands, became firmly convinced that rabies does occur here, and 

 read a paper on "The Prevalence of Hydrophobia in the Philippine 

 Islands" at the meeting of the Philippine Islands Medical Association, 

 February 28, 1907. 3 IJp to that time Dudley had collected statistics of 

 158 deaths from hydrophobia, in the human, and since then has received 

 additional reports of 244 deaths, making a total of 402 reported human 



1 Attending surgeon, St. Paul's Hospital, Manila. 



- Major, Medical Corps, United States Army, detailed for civil duty to the 

 Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science. The laboratory work was done at the 

 Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science. 



3 Dudley, F. W. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso. (1908), 51, 2143. 



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