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of each month. I will send yon an account of our meetings 
every month. Should any paper be read of more than usual 
interest I will send it in full. 
Yours truly, 
W. D. Morrison, Secretary. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
The Extermination of Hydrophobia in England.— 
In Nature , for July 4th, we find an account of a meeting at the 
Mansion House, London, held July 1st, to discuss the preven¬ 
tion of hydrophobia. The increase of rabies, on the one hand, 
and, on the other, the efforts of certain coteries to resist the 
introduction of the Pasteurian methods into England, have 
caused this rally of the friends of Pasteur. Two letters, 
among others, were read at the meeting, written by Professor 
Huxley and M. Pasteur. Huxley’s letter characterizes very 
pungently the opposition of the anti-vivisectionists as coming 
from a class of people “ who prefer that men should suffer 
rather than rabbits and dogs.” His opinion of the value of 
M. Pasteur’s work is positive. He says: “Medicine, sur¬ 
gery, and hygiene have all been powerfully affected by the 
labors of Pasteur, which have culminated in his method of 
treating hydrophobic victims.” The letter of M. Pasteur, 
dated as late as June 27th, was read by Sir Henry Roscoe, 
M.P. It is interesting as giving his latest figures, amounting 
to nearly seven thousand patients treated. The number, to 
June 1st, was six thousand nine hundred and fifty, and the 
deaths were seventy-one. In short, the general mortality has 
been one per cent., but, if an exception is made of the cases in 
which hydrophobia had “burst out” before the curative pro¬ 
cess could be complete, the general mortality is reduced to 
0.68 per cent. M. Pasteur assures the English people that 
they can “stamp out” rabies in their country if the proper 
measures, which are entirely feasible, are carried out, and he 
cites to them the fact that Norway, Sweden and Australia 
are countries where the disease is not known.— N. Y. Medical 
Journal. 
