SUNDRY ITEMS. 
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SUNDRY ITEMS, 
Hereditary Immunity from Rabies. — Tizzoni and 
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Cantani have shown, experimentally, that in rabbits artificial 
immunity from rabies may be transmitted from the father to 
the offspring-. They experimented upon the young of three 
litters. The male had been strongly immunized against 
rabies, while the mother could be considered normal in re¬ 
gard to rabies, although she had been immunized against 
tetanus. The y^ung were inoculated at ages varying from 
forty-six to seventy-seven days with the rabic virus of the 
streets, introduced within the dura mater. Invariably, these 
rabbits that had been inoculated with street rabies did not 
contract the disease ; others, however, which were inoculated 
with the most virulent form, became ill and died, but much 
later than control animals. 
The authors believe, therefore, that they have, beyond a 
doubt, proven the possibility of a hereditary transmission of 
immunity through the germinal plasma.— Am. Med. Gen. Med. 
Anti-Rabic Vaccinations made at the Pasteur Institute in 
Paris since 1886. During the year 1892, out of 1,793 persons 
who have received the treatment at the Pasteur Institute at 
Paris, seven died of hydrophobia ; therefore the death rate 
was 0.39 per 100. But three of these persons, who came to 
be treated after a certain time had elapsed after the bite, died 
during the treatment or before fifteen days after the end of it, 
and they must be deducted from the number of dead as well 
as from the persons treated, thus reducing the figures as fol¬ 
lows: Treated, 1,790; died, 4; death rate, 0.22. 
The number of persons treated since the foundation of 
the institute is 12,782, of which 68 died—an average rate of 
0.52 per cent. 
The following contains the same information with regard 
to the work of the New York Pasteur Institute for the year 
1892: 
