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tween 1 and 1.2, showing, on the lowest estimate, the saving of 
not less than 100 lives. Of 233 persons bitten by animals in 
which rabies was proved, only 4 died. Without inoculation, at 
least 40 would have died. Among 186 bitten on the head or face 
by animals in which rabies was proved, only 9 died, instead of at 
least 40. Of 48 bitten by rabid wolves, only 9 died, instead of 
nearly 30. Between the end of last December and the end of 
March, M. Pasteur inoculated 509 persons bitten by animals 
proved to have been rabid; only 2 have died, one of these, bitten 
by a wolf a month before inoculation, dying after only three days’ 
treatment. The committee think it therefore certain that the 
inoculations practised by M. Pasteur have prevented the occur¬ 
rence of hydrophobia in a large proportion of those who, if they 
had not be so inoculated, would have died of that disease. And 
his discovery shows that it may become possible to arrest by 
inoculation, even after infection, other diseases besides hydropho¬ 
bia. His researches have also added very largely to the knowl¬ 
edge of the pathology of hydrophobia, and supplied a sure means 
of determining whether an animal which has died under suspicion 
of rabies was really affected with that disease or not.” 
The question whether the method itself entails risk to health 
or life is then discussed, the distinction between the ordinary 
method and the “ intensive” method being pointed out. By the 
first method there is no evidence or probability of any danger to 
health at all; but after the intensive method, which is only prac¬ 
ticed in the most urgent cases, deaths have occurred which might 
possibly be attributed to the inoculations rather than to the 
original infection. Yet in the worst cases the intensive method 
is relatively more efficacious than the ordinary method, nor is the 
rate of mortality greater after the former method than after the 
latter. Certain cases, one of which is detailed, have, however, 
excited suspicion from the mode of death. The case related is 
that of a man bitten by a rabid cat at the Brown Institution, 
treated by M. Pasteur the next day by the intensive method, con¬ 
tinued during twenty-four days, and dying about a month later 
with symptoms of acute ascending paralysis. The man was very 
intemperate, and had been exposed to chill while crossing the 
