EDITORIAL. 
711 
cy of inoculation in the treatment of rabies need any more 
proofs than those which are already furnished by the reports 
ol the various Pasteur Institutes all over the world ? 
In the presence of such an array of facts, why is it that 
inoculation is not practiced on a larger scale, if not univer¬ 
sally ? Why is it that veterinarians do not, in the interests of 
their own employers, resort to it oftener? And since out¬ 
breaks of anthrax, chicken cholera, pleuro pneumonia and 
hog cholera have all proved amenable to control, or we might 
almost say prevention, by inoculation, does it not behoove 
the veterinarian to take advantage of it as one of the most 
important of all sanitary measures at his disposal ? 
Let us consider one of these affections. One, rabies, for 
instance, communicable to mankind ; indeed, to almost all 
animals, as far as we know. Is not the existence of a single 
affected animal, until he is removed by death and cremation, a 
permanent threat to life itself, not to speak of possible losses 
and costs of a pecuniary character ? 
Since the application of the Pasteur treatment or inocula¬ 
tions to man, the danger of losing life through rabic inocula¬ 
tion has become a thing almost of the past. But what of 
the pecuniary loss in cases of possible outbreaks amongst 
animals ? 
A mad dog in his wanderings hither and thither attacks 
indiscriminately, it is usually impossible to know how many 
horses, cattle, sheep, dogs and pigs, if he has not begun his 
ravages in his master’s house and among his children and 
neighbors. These may resort immediately to a Pasteur In¬ 
stitute and there receive the benefit of the treatment which 
has proved so successful for years; but what of those other 
unknown victims which have received into their organisms 
the virus which sooner or later must prove to be a sentence 
of death ? 
To illustrate this we may be allowed to mention a single 
case, the result of an outbreak which occurred some months 
ago in Pennsylvania. Rabies developed itself in a large dog 
kennel containing some sixty animals. Subsequently, at dif¬ 
ferent dates, eight or ten successively became affected and 
