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It is not impossible that some sort of intensive 

 modification of Pasteur's treatment may be found, 

 not for the prevention, but for the cure of hydro- 

 phobia ; and two successful cases of this kind have 

 been reported in the Annates of the Paris Institute. 

 Apart from this faint hope, the cure of hydrophobia 

 is where it was in the days of the " Tonquin 

 medicine" and the " Tanjore pills." As for the 

 " Buisson Bath Treatment for the Prevention and 

 Cure of Hydrophobia," it failed egregiously to afford 

 the very least benefit to inoculated animals, and the 

 evidence in its favour is just like the evidence for 

 Mother Siegel's Syrup. Dr Buisson invented it 

 because, having imagined that he had hydrophobia, 

 he took a vapour-bath to kill himself : and at 42 

 degrees (127 Fahrenheit) I was cured ! It was an 

 ordinary case of fear of hydrophobia. Then there 

 is "a mass of cures effected in Asia": we know 

 that mass of cures in Asia ; but only one of them 

 is quoted, and in that case nothing is said about 

 the dog. And there is the case of Pauline Kiehl, 

 who was " refused treatment by M. Pasteur," which 

 is certainly the strangest feature of the case ; but 

 it is not said where this case is published. Also, a 

 native of Dacca, in India, testifies, " No fewer than 

 thirty cases we treated successfully. One case, 

 bitten by a cobra, we treated with wonderful 

 success, and another by a rabid fox." He does not 

 say whether the cobra was rabid. Also, a lady 

 doctor, "in charge of the Temperance and Buisson 

 Institute, Byculla, Bombay," gives the case of a 

 little boy who was bitten by a dog " suspected, 



