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were experienced in the region of the left crural nerve. On 
the twelfth day he suffered a frontal cephalalgia and an exac¬ 
erbation of the pains at the nape of the neck. These symp- • 
toms continued for about fifteen days after the treatment, ac¬ 
companied by an unusual sexual excitement, sadness, undefined 
preoccupation and unlocalized pains. The appetite was always 
good. 
Finally, Messrs. Roger and de Monchy were affected on or 
about the fifteenth day following the last inoculation by pains 
in the spots where the injections were made. These pains 
were so acute as to suddenly awaken them in the middle of 
the night. I call attention to this last fact because in one 
case, when a person inoculated died of hydrophobia in spite of 
the treatment, the adversaries of the Pasteur method* took ad¬ 
vantage of this fact, that the patient had complained of suffer¬ 
ing at the spots of the inoculations, to pretend that hydropho¬ 
bia had been communicated to him bv these inoculations. 
One sees, however, that these injections are able to cause acute 
pains some time after they have been made, without deter¬ 
mining hydrophobia. 
To-day, the nineteenth of May, nearly a month and a half 
after the last inoculation, we are all three in a state of health 
as satisfactory as possible. I will add that the sixteen per¬ 
sons who had been inoculated at the New York Pasteur In¬ 
stitute in the two months following its opening, are enjoying 
good health, whilst several domestic animals, bitten by the 
same dogs that attacked several of these patients, have died 
of hydrophobia. A man bitten by one of these dogs and not 
treated at the Institute has also died of hydrophobia. 
I am happy to make known these facts, and I shall be still 
happier if, by the application of the method of my illustrious 
teacher, Mr. Pasteur—the method which is so successful in 
Europe—I am able, on this side of the Atlantic, to preserve the 
greatest number of persons possible from the frightful death 
which is the consequence of hydrophobia. 
