PARIS (1897) 



175 



II. 



Patients treated at the Pasteur Institute are 

 divided into three classes, as follows :— 



A. The rabies of the animal was proved by- 

 experiment, by the development of rabies in animals 

 inoculated with its bulb (the upper end of the spinal 

 cord).* 



B. The rabies of the animal was proved by 

 veterinary examination (dissection of its body). 



C. The animal was suspected of rabies. 



We give here the patients treated in 1897, under 

 these three classes : — 



Bites of the 

 Head. 



Bites on the 

 Hands. 



Bites of the 

 Limbs. 



Total. 





Patients. 



<D 

 ft 



Mortality 

 per cent. 



Patients. 



ft 



Mortality 

 per cent. 



Patients. 



00 



% 



ft 



Mortality 

 per cent. 



Patients. 



CO 



A 



+2 



3 

 ft 



Mortality 

 per cent. 



A 

 B 

 C 



15 

 I06 



30 



O 

 O 

 O 



O 

 O 

 O 



8l 



539 

 244 



O 



4 

 0 



O 



O.74 

 O 



46 



273 

 187 



I 

 I 



O 



2.1 

 0.4 

 O 



142 

 918 

 461 



1 



5 

 0 



0.7 

 O.65 



0 





151 



O 



O 



864 



4 



O.46 



506 



2 



0.4 



1521 



6 



0.39 



The following tables, giving the results obtained 

 since the vaccinations were first used, show that the 

 gravity of the bites varies with their position on the 

 body, and that the mortality is always below 1 per 



* It is satisfactory to know that rabbits affected with rabies 

 do not suffer in the same way as dogs and some other animals, 

 but become subject to a painless kind of paralysis. 



