EDITORIAL 
203 
[ e of the dead animals must often devolve, it was a most 
uable assistance, by enabling him to dispense with the long 
e 1 tedious and not always successful process of ordinary inocu- 
I ion, and replacing it by one of short duration, and which was 
: 'jays positive, not negative, in its results. The experiments had 
jn made time and time again. Hundreds, and indeed, thousands 
these tests have been made, and the operation is so simple that 
lure, even through imperfect manipulation, has been followed 
death in only an infinitesimal proportion, and to-day the whole 
rid is practicing cerebral inoculation for the development of 
tj ties, either for information, experimentation or inoculation. To 
: r , then, that “ the method of demonstrating rabies by direct 
i culation of the brain is fallacious,” is an assertion that all in- 
t ligent and unprejudiced scientists will pronounce erroneous. 
This assertion, made before a scientific body of this city, was 
• iposed to be supported and confirmed by the report of a few 
)eriments in which cerebral inoculation of foreign substances 
ig rise to meningeal disturbances, and to symptoms which were 
imed to be of a rabid character. Of course it will not be de- 
d that meningitis may sometimes result from cerebral trephin- 
;, from improper manipulation and from the introduction and 
:sence in the brain of foreign substances, as exemplified and 
lorted in the July number of the Journal of Comparative 
, idicine , and a careful reading of these reports evidently shows 
it no other result could have been looked for. But to affirm 
s fallacy of cerebral inoculation from these premises is to take 
;reat liberty with the facts and the logic of the case, and is 
ing quite too wide a stride in reach of a conclusion. 
Let the experimentators who have come to this rather hasty 
lclusion repeat their experiments a sufficient number of times, 
longer with foreign substance, but with fresh material obtained 
m a rabid or suspected rabid animal; let them closely watch 
ir patients, and look for the well confirmed symptoms of the 
ease; let them carefully note the regular method in which the 
rtality will take place, after an almost positive length of time, 
jays the same for those in which the rabid brain has been used ; 
them observe the animals that may die from meningitis, care- 
