FOnfiST ANt3 STREAM. 
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The London Lancelot Oct. 31, 1885 says: "We cannot but 
think that Pasteur's inferences are sanguine and prema- 
ture." In the year 1895 the Lancet published a statement 
from Dr. Magner, in which he pointed out that Pasteurian 
statistics were very misleading, and quoted from a report of 
the Registrar-General of England to show that in the five 
years preceding the establishment of the Pasteur Institute 
the number of deaths from hydrophobia were 155, wherens 
in the five years thereafter they reached 159. He thought 
that was a strong argument that the Pasteur Institute had 
ho efEect in diminishing the deaths from hydrophobia. An 
article in the Paris Journal of Medicine, by Prof. Peter, 
stated that the inoculations pretended to be antirabic by M. 
Pasteur were in principle nonsense, and in practice decep- 
tive. Statistics have shown that the uiortality from hydro- 
phobia in and around Paris, the seat of the Institute, has 
hot been in any way lowered, but, on the contrary, has in- 
creased ever sincb Pasteur began his inoculations. In 1895, 
212 persons died of hydrophobia after undergoing the Pas- 
teurian treatment, which ought to have saved them from 
any attdck of the malady. * * * In 1866, a girl named 
Pauline kiehl was taken to the Institute, but as hydropho- 
bia had already set in Pasteur declined having anything to 
do with the case. The girl was then taken to Dr. Leon 
Petit, of Paris, who cured her by the vapor-bath treatment. 
-» * ->:- jjj.. Lutaud, editor of the Jo urnal of Medicine of 
Paris, with sti-aightforwardness asserts that Pasteur does 
not cure hydrophobia, but he gives it. - * * In 1894, Dr. 
C. W. Dulles, of Philadelphia, made a report to the Penn- 
sylvania Medical Society of his special study of hydropho- 
bia, covering a period of over ten years. His figures give an 
average, from a total of seventy-eight cases, of one per an- 
num to every 4,500,000 of population, with an excess of cases 
ia the vicinity of Pasteur Institutes. In fact, he charges di- 
rectly that not only have Pasteur's methods "increased the 
number of deaths "from hydrophobia," but that "there has 
been added to these a large number of deaths due to inocu- 
lation of what ought to be called Pasteur's disease." * * * 
Dr. Dolan, editor of the Provincial Medical Journal, tak- 
ing a general survey of Pasteur's methods and his numerous 
failures, says that "Not only does Pasteur not protect from 
the disease under the very conditions demanded by himself, 
but he has added a new terror to it by the introduction of 
paralytic rabies." 
In Long Island City, on April 25, 1897, a strange dog se- 
verely bit a six-year-old boy named Charles Silk. Two days 
thereafter the child was taken to the Pasteur Institute in 
J^few York and a course of treatment commenced at once, 
which lasted fifteen days. After completing the course at 
the Institute the mother of the child was told that her son 
was insured against dog bites for ten years to come, but 
three weeks from the day of being bitten the boy died, a 
pronounced case of hydrophobia. 
Better than Pasteur Institutes, and better than all other 
remedies, or rather preventives, would be what is proposed 
by an eminent English writer, Mrs. Maynell, in the'London 
Chronicle, and that is the utter extinction of the canine race, 
holding that the life of one child is of more value to the 
world than that of all dogs, and that one of the inevitable 
results of our advancing civilization will be their extinction. 
While the dog forms a prominent feature of the domestic 
life of our day, the services he renders are by no means an 
adequate offset to the danger with which his presence con- 
tinually menaces the community. 
The Pasteurian treatment is a grevous mistake, although 
it Is as yet the only method that has medical sanction. There 
is a simpler, safer and more scientific treatment for the 
dreaded disease, based not upon the old-fashioned practice 
of putting foreign^matter into the system, but on the more 
modern and exact principle of eliminating the poisonous 
taint. That is the hot air or vapor bath treatment as prac- 
ticed in many lands, but particularly by Dr. Buisson, for- 
merly of Paris. By this means patients have been cured, 
even after hydrophobia had set in. 
In the year 1826, Dr. Buisson was called in to attend a 
woman attacked by hydrophobia. According to custom he 
bled her, and happened to wipe his hands on her hand- 
kerchief, covered with saliva. "Perceiving a mark on the 
first finger of my left hand," he writes in a book published 
in Paris in 1855, "I became aware too late bow imprudent I 
had been. As soon as I reached home I cauterized the 
wound with nitrate of silver. On the seventh day I experi- 
enced a sharp pain in the region of the scar. Imagining, 
however, that it was in consequence of the cauterization, I 
paid no great heed to it, but the pain became so intense that 
I was obliged to put my arm in a sling. The pain grew more 
and more acute, commencing at the first finger and follow- 
ing the radial nerve till it mounted to the forearm. The 
paroxysms lasted two or three minutes, with intermissions 
of five or six minutes. At each paroxysm the pain spread to 
the length of several centimeters; when it passed the elbow 
it became intolerable. My eyes were extremely irritable, and 
felt as though likely to start out of their sockets. I was 
painfully alSected by light, and consequently by all lumin- 
ous bodies, such as glass and metals. My hair seemed to 
etand erect. My body seemed lighter than air; I believed 
that by springing from the ground I could have lifted my- 
self up to a prodigious height. I had tightening of the 
throat, constant nausea, salivated much and expectorated 
incessantly. I felt that my sublingual glands were swollen, 
but when I wished to assure myself of the fact by looking at 
them in a glass I was unable to carry out my design on ac- 
count of my eyes. I had a constant longing to run and to 
bite, and my only alleviation was to walk quickly up and 
down my room, biting my handkerchief the while. I had a 
horror of water. ' ' 
Ordinarily there is but one result to such a condition as 
this. "For some time past," continues Dr. Buisson, "I had 
been persuaded that a vapor bath was able to prevent, but 
not to cure hydrophobia. My thoughts being occupied solely 
with death, I sought that which was the most prompt and 
least painful to put an end to my life. I resolved to die in a 
vapor bath. I took a thermometer in my hands, fearing that 
the heat I desired might be refused me, I had been but a 
few minutes in the bath before I felt a change for the bet- 
ter. This gave me hope. At 127° F. I was cured. At first 
I believed it was merely a long intermission from pain, 
which would be terminated by contact with the air outside 
the bath. After the bath I dined and drank with ease, and 
went to bed and slept well. Prom that day to this, nearly 
twenty years, I have felt no sort of pain or uneasiness." 
Dr. Buisson again says: "Experience has proved to me 
that hydrophobia may last three days. The cure is sure by 
following my system the first day, uncertain the second, im- 
possible the third. Who would wait for the last day, know- 
ing my means? One would not even wait for the malady, 
one would always prevent it. 
"Hydrophobia never shows itself before the seventh day 
after the bite, and one can then go a long journey to procure 
these baths, called Russian." 
The Lancet says: "Hydrophobia was cured by the late Dr. 
Buisson in his own and eighty cases by vapor baths, raised 
rapidly to 135° F., and more slowly to 145° F." "A vapor 
bath," writes Dr. Buisson, "prevents the development 
of hydrophobia and cures the malady when developed. In 
order to convince all sensible persons that I am really in 
earnest, I oflrer to inoculate myself with the disease. This 
fact should be a suflieient guarantee of the certainty of my 
method of cure." 
It is interesting to state that in London there is now estab- 
lished a Buisson institute, under the care of a qualified 
physician, for the gratuitous treatment of hydrophobic cases, 
A number of cases of undoubted hydrophobia have been Buo- 
cessfullv treated by means of these baths in India, and the 
Viceroy' of India has notified Mr. F. E. Pirkis, R.K, of the 
London Buisson Baths, that the Government will afford 
facilities for the placing of Buisson baths for the treatment 
of hydrophobia in Government hospitals and dispensaries in 
India. Twenty baths for that purpose are being immedi- 
ately dispatched. In looking over a late paper from Cal- 
cutta, it was noticed to contain an advertisement of thirty- 
four Buisson baths, located in diflierent parts of India, 
where that treatment could be obtained free by needy suf- 
ferers. 
There is no possible doubt as to the value of the Turkish, 
bath in all disorders of the ferment class, and whether it is 
competent to the complete eradication of the poison, or to 
arrest destructive tissue changes when once they have thor- 
oughly begun, will appear doubtful only to those who are 
not familiar with the wonderful restorative action of heat 
when used in its higher potency. The simple treatment of a 
hot-air bath has actually cured the disease in the last stages 
and restored the patient when in the extreme horrors of rap- 
idly approaching death. A prompt use of the hot-air bath in 
every case of a bite from a dog cannot but do good, even if 
there is no question of the animal being rabid, and when the 
animal is mad it is a safe and effective remedy. Whoever is 
willing to investigate the merits of the hot-air bath will soon 
learn that it has a valid claim to the title of certain cure for 
hydrophobia. 
In Brooklyn, N. Y., June, 1874, a case cime under my 
supervision. A suspected dog was confined, but broke away, 
and in his career of biting other dogs also bit a Prospect 
Park laborer, one George Wagner. As the dog was to all ap- 
pearances suffering from rabies, he was immediately killed. 
The man's wounds were cauterized with nitrate of silver, 
and on the third day thereafter he was brought to_the Turk- 
ish bath. He was bitten through the palm of one' hand and 
partly through two fingers. He complained of what seemed 
like neuralgic pains in the hand and arm, which were 
swollen, and also pains in the head, back and throat. He 
underwent the process of the bath twice daily during one 
week and once daily for two weeks longer. The baths were 
administered with exceptional vigor in his case. Soon every 
unpleasant symptom vanished, and for many years afterward 
he was well and hard at work. 
Dr. M, Hermanee. also of Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1877 saved a 
boy from the agonizing death of hydrophobia by the use of 
the vapor bath, which was applied while the patient was 
tied down in bed. In about three-quarters of an hour after 
beginning operations a profuse perspiration was induced. 
When he began to sweat freely signs of returning conscious- 
ness appeared, which increased as the perspiration was con- 
tinxied, until in the space of about two and a half hours he 
was fully restored to consciousness, with a perfect relief 
from all his hydrophobic symptoms, the pain in the bitten 
hand and arm included, of which he had complained very 
much in the intervals of consciousness between his convul- 
sions. 
There is almost positive evidence regarding this form of 
treatment from Wilmington, Del. In the year 1869 three 
children of that place were bitten by a rabid dog. This dog 
also bit a heifer, a cow and two other dogs. The four ani- 
mals soon afterward died of hydrophobia. The children 
were placed under the care of Dr. John Cameron, of that 
city, and by him were taken to Philadelphia and there sub- 
jected to the Turkish bath daily for two weeks. Although 
the wounds were very severe and the discharge from one of 
them was of the color of verdigris for several days, they 
healed without aifliculty and no symptom of the malady has 
been manifested since. 
In 1866 Rev. J. J. Curran, of the Industrial School, Arling- 
ton, N. J., published a case which occurred under his care. 
One of the pupils named Klee was bitten on the hand by a 
dog on Jan. 2. As the wound healed rapidly nothing more 
was thought of it, but on Jan. 32 unmistakable symptoms 
of hydrophobia manifested themselves and increased for two 
days, when there appeared no possible hope for him. Then 
a small kerosene oil stove was lighted and placed on the 
floor; on top of this was placed a pan of boiling water, and 
over all a chair, on which the boy was seated. Around the 
chau' and boy and vaporing machine were wrapped several 
folds of blankets, pinned about his neck and fitted so that 
the steam was retained about his body. He was also given 
a dose of sweating medicine, and in five minutes the perspir- 
ation was streaming from every pore of his body, and in ten 
minutes after he said: "The pains are all gone!" He was 
kept in this condition for about half an hour. The result 
was that the boy was cured, and in two months after he was 
as well as he ever had been, and so continued. 
The natives of Australia, and also of India, have a sitccess- 
ful habit of at once taking violent exercise on beginning to 
feel ill. This is the principle of the Turkish bath treatment 
—that is, to relieve the system of its impurities by sweating. 
Sir John Drummond Hay, who was many years English 
minister in Morocco, long before Pasteur's time, stated that 
the Arabs there cured hydrophobia by sweating. The 
patient was swathed in woolen covering till all but smoth- 
ered, placed in a small tent (these tents are always of black 
camel's hair, much more impervious than canvas) and then 
the tent was closed so as to exclude air as much possible and 
the patient left until profuse perspiration carried off the 
poison. This treatment was found invariably successful. 
A St. Petersburg newspaper states: "We are informed by 
good physicians that if the patient, immediately after being 
bitten, will go into a bath and stay there seven days he will 
have excellent chances of recovery. The poison in the blood 
will be eliminated by a steady and vigorous perspiration. 
Some physicians have attained good results by washing the 
wound with warm vinegar and then applying hydrochloric 
or muriatic acid." 
There is undoubtedly an hysteric or "mental hydropho- 
bia," as it is sometimes called, induced by emotion, or 
through fear of the disease after having been bitten, which 
■ may lack many of the characteristic symptoms of the true 
affection and differs from it notably in its rare fatality. 
Such cases, serious enough to the patient for the time being, 
would be most easily and agreeably treated by the Turkish 
bath. Herein would come one of the great advantages to 
the community, which every city would enjoy by having, 
what woiild be most desirable to all, a ptiblic Turkish bath 
that would be open to such cases as well as to any other. A 
few days', or, at most, a few weeks' treatment at such an 
establishment would put the patient otit of reach of any 
danger from hydrophobia. 
Some twelve years ago four children living at Newark, N. 
J., were bitten by a dog supposed to be rabid, and more than 
§1,000 was subscribed to send them to Paris that they might 
tindergo Pasteur's treatment. 
If the people were only awake to their best good, and 
would subscribe liberally for public Turkish baths, they 
would have a better and surer remedy right at their own 
doors. 
On March 28, 1897, Dr. Frank D. Gray, in Jersey City, was 
bitten by a St. Bernard dog that had shown some slight 
symptoms of rabies. Evidently not knowing a better way, 
Dr. Gray sailed for Paris to take the Pasteur treatment. 
Had he been aware of the eliminating power and healing 
virtues of the Turkish bath, he could have remained at home 
and saved himself the mental tortui-e as well as the expense 
incident thereto. It is very pleasant and desirable to go 
to Paris, but to "wash and be clean" is much more de- 
sirable. 
The conclusion that is forced upon us by these facts is that 
in all cases of infectious disease our chief efforts should be 
directed to promoting the eliminating power of the patient. 
This is working in harmony with and assisting the vita^ 
resistance to disease. Whatever tends to invigorate the in- 
dividital enables him the more quickly and surely to sur- 
mount the difiiculty. Herein lies the most important ele- 
ment. When it is understood that in the proper applica- 
tion of heat — and in that we recognize all forms, whether it 
be the use of hot water, the Russian bath, or the above all 
most desirable Turkish bath — and the fact remains that in 
heat we have an agent capable of countei-acting the poison 
of rabies, then it may well be asked: what poisonous influ- 
ence can resist its potency.' Knowing thi.'^, we should do all 
in our power to arouse the public mind to the value of the 
public Turkish bath, which should be established by the 
people in every city in the land, and so conducted that its 
blessings would ramify through every stratum of society. 
Thus would we hasten on the time when hydrophobia will 
cease to be a terror in the land, and disease will not be the 
inheritance of every child, but rather that good health will 
be the pride and possession of every citizen. — Ohas H. Shep- 
ard, M. D., in the Jorvrnal of thejLmerican Medical Asso. 
ciation. 
THE INTERNATIONAL FIELD TRIALS. 
SteA'Ensyii-le, Pa — Editor Forest and Stream: I have 
just read Mr. Hough's graphic and hitjhly entertainine; 
report of the International field trials, held at Mitchell's 
Bay, Oat., and while it is somewhat sensational and very 
flattering to some of Ihe dogs and their owners, I cannot 
concur in many of the decisions of the judges, nor agree 
with the conclusions drawn from inference by your reporter. 
I have no wish for newspaper notoriety, and will not be 
drawn into a public controversy, but there are some things 
connected with the judging of the International field trials 
of 1897 which I wish to say, not because I feel especially 
aggrieved, but because I believe in a spirit of fairness in 
everything connected with field sports, and that absolute 
fairness and impartiality are the vital paits of their exist- 
ence. 
Mr. Hough dwells at considerable length on the age and 
experience of the judges, and while 1 have nothing but 
respect for old age and ripe experience, I cannot but think 
that we lay too much stress at times on what has been, and 
too little on what is; that is, we dwell too much on age and 
its supposed coadjutor, experience, and too little on our own 
observations and careful d'sciiminations. Experience does 
not always beget wisdom, and old age is not necessary to a 
large experience. Close observation and caretul discrim- 
ination sometimes carry a very old head on very young 
shoulders. 
As to the judging, we will first look at the Derby as re- 
ported by Mr. Hough, only adding a few remarks from 
present observation, and leaving the question as to whether 
the dogs were rightly placed or not to the discrimination of 
the unbiased reader. 
The winner of first, after being down in all two hours and 
forty-nine minuies under the most favorable conditions of 
birds and weather, fioally "jumped into a grand bevy- 
point," his only point in three long heats, with birds a- 
plenty and flushes where "possibly he may have been point- 
ng." 
Th'' winner of second blinked her birds continuously, as 
per Mr. Hough's report. The winner of third hadn't a 
-known point to her credit, unless -a find by handler and an 
eilort on her part to get at the birds in a brush fence with an 
animated tail are called pointing. The winner of fourth 
was down in all one hour and fifty minutes, and had to his 
credit six points, with some "sloppy work mixed in." 
Now as to the All- Age Stake, taking again Mr. Hough's 
report, and deviating therefrom only in matters that came 
under my own personal observation. Before reviewing the 
running and judging I will in as brief a manner as possible 
preface my remarks by stating that after the close of the 
Derby and before the drawing for the All-Age Stake, the 
question was asked the judges whether point work and bird 
work would be considered, or whether the stake would be run 
onlspeed Hnd ranye alone. The answer was "that ihey would 
aUbe considered, but that the dog having the most speed and 
range, all elae being tqual, would have the preference; but a 
dog that was under no control, and did not stanchly stand 
hi3 birds would not be recognized — a very sensible and 
satisfactory auswei ; but go with the reporter through some 
of the heats and then note the judging. 
Take the first brace of the first aeries — Forest Gladstone 
and C junt Vassar. This brace was put down m the worst 
part of the day (11 and yet there was no heat during the 
whole trials in which there was so much bird work, so much 
point work and so few errors for the time down as in this 
heat; and yet neither found a place in the stake, and Forest 
Gladstone was not even let into the second series, although 
she had been guilty of no errors, and was ordered brought 
along by the judges (for what reason is not quite clear, out- 
side of the Viil of mystery surrounding the chosen few). 
The third brace in the first series — Dash Antonio and Sel- 
kirk Whyle — your reporter gives two points, four flushes 
and three false points, and yet they were "high class dogs" 
and continued in the stake, as one reporter says, for the 
reason that "they were believed to be capable of better 
work." Commendable reason, and one to be referred to in 
future competitions judging of possibilities "and proba- 
bilities." "Oh, consistency! thou art a jewel 1" 
Let us go a little further with Mr. Hough, and take the sec- 
ond brace in the second series — Dash Antonio and Maud W. 
— and after a careful review of the work of this brace let us 
ask the judges and reporter if any dog not a high class dog 
could be retained in an all-age stake after such a brilliant, in- 
dependent, self-hanting exhibition? "It was awkward, to 
say the least." 
I had always supposed that a good field trial dog was a 
good shooting dog, with good speed, good range, good nose, 
stanch on point, obedient, cheerful, affectionate, and one 
that worked for the gun and handler; but according to the 
standard of some field trial judges I find myself in error, 
and as I am still interested in field trials and ambitious to 
be a winner, I am now casting about for a kennel of gray- 
hounds and barzoi, and shall probably give up field shoot- 
ing and devote my time and energies toward the perfecting 
of a type of field trial dogs that can catch their birds with- 
out the aid or incumbrance of an unwieldy gun. 
W. W. McCAm. 
Mr. J. M. Avent, of Hickory Talley, Tenn. , writes us that 
on the night of Nov. 39 his residence was burned. About 
half his furniture was saved. The house was partially in- 
sured. Among the lost property, which he deplores, is a 
file of Forest and Stkeams beginning with the first field 
trials at Grand Junction, Tenn. He further adds: "I am 
now finiahiog Mr. H. B. Duryea a beautiful residence for a 
winter shooting box. He moves from New York on Dsc, 
10 with a party of friends for the winter hunt here," 
