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DISCUSSION. 



once; thus it was impossible for the infection to have occurred from this 

 source. 



Mr. Batiks. — I do not want to be misunderstood or to convej' the idea 

 that there was any chance for infection while the man was being 

 operated upon by a person in authority, but merely that the infection 

 was probably caused by the man using some substance infested with the ova 

 or larvas of the fly and at a time and place unknown to the medical officer. 



Dr. J. M. Atkinson, principal medical officer, Hongkong, delegate 

 from the government of Hongkong. — These larvte have been found in 

 the stools of the Chinese. How they can enter the mouth and not be de- 

 stroyed by the gastric and other juices met with in the intestinal tract is 

 remarkable. They have been found by Doctor Bell in stools at the civil 

 hospital at Hongkong. 



REPORT ON THE CASE OF SUSPECTED HYDROPHOBIA IN A DOG, REFERRED 



TO IN THE PAPER BY DOCTORS DUDLEY AND WHIT1IORE, ENTITLED 



"HYDROPHOBIA IN THE PHILIPPINES." 



Manila, P. L, July 9, 1907. 

 The Director of Science, Manila. 



Sir : I have the honor to inform you of the result of the inoculation 

 of the material of suspected hydrophobia (med^la oblongata of a dog 

 with the suspicion of Lyssa).' The result shows it apparently to have 

 been a real case. This assumption must be proved scientifically by 

 further experiments. 



On June 8, in the morning, the body of a dog, with suspected hydro- 

 phobia, was brought to my laboratory by Doctors Ashburn and Craig. I 

 opened the scalp and took out the brain, and dissecting out the lateral 

 ventricles of both sides, made 20 smears of the hypocampus for Doctors 

 Ash bum and Craig, who examined the smears by staining with Azur 

 II, and Azur-eosin stains (Giemsa's fluid) and stated that they found 

 some bodies in contour like Negri's in them. I made the emulsion of the 

 medulla oblongata according to the regular method and performed sub- 

 dural inoculation through the foramen opticum into three rabbits. The 

 following table shows the results : 



Rabbit inoculation, of susjiected street virus, Manila. 



Rabbits. 



Inocula- 

 tion. 



Duration, 

 days. 



Date of 

 death. 



Source and symp- 

 toms. 



No. 127 



June 8 

 do.... 



22 

 24 

 31 



June 29 

 July 1 

 July 9« 



Slightly typical. 

 Typical. 

 Do. 



No. 128 



No. 129 .. 



___do .... 







n Almost dying. 



