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The Chicago Pasteur Institute. —The director has 
issued a circular, dated Nov. 18th, giving the results of the 
preventive inoculations against hydrophobia practiced in this 
institution since its inauguration on July 2d, 1890. 302 
persons have been treated, classified as follows : 104 bitten by 
animals recognized and ascertained to be rabid by the exper¬ 
imental proof made in the laboratory or by the death of other 
persons or of animals bitten by the same animal; 126 bitten 
by animals recognized to be rabid by the symptoms of the dis¬ 
ease shown during life ; 72 bitten by animals strongly suspected 
to be rabid; 282 bitten by dogs, 7 by horses, 7 by cats, 3 by 
skunks, 2 by wolves, and 1 by a mule. The persons treated 
came from the following States: 185 from Illinois, 32 from 
Iowa, 23 from Indiana, 21 from Kansas, 9 from Ohio, 5 from 
Missouri, 5 from Arizona, 4 from Minnesota, 4 from Michigan, 
4 from Louisiana, 3 from Tennessee, 3 from Kentucky, 2 from 
Texas, 1 from Wisconsin and 1 from South Dakota. One 
death was reported among- the patients treated, thus giving a 
mortality of only 0.33 per cent.— N. Y. Med. Journal. 
Recovery from Chronic Glanders. —Holmes holds that 
glanders is rare in man, and that it presents itself in two forms 
—one acute and rapidly fatal, terminating, as a rule, within 
two or three months; the other chronic, from which the patient 
may recover after one, two, four or five years. 
The author reports the following case: The patient, 
a well-developed man, aged twenty-two, had always been 
well and strong, and lived on a farm all his life. Two of 
the horses under his care died of glanders. Some time during- 
the middle of December, 1889, a felon appeared on one of 
his fingers. There was no adenitis nor lymphangitis, and no 
rise of temperature nor chill. Before the felon was entirely 
healed five suppurating- foci appeared on different parts of 
the body—one at the elbow, one at the vertex, one on the 
right side of the lower maxilla, one in the right thigh, and 
one in the right calf. These foci appeared three weeks after 
the beginning of the so-called felon. They each began with 
