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stated that he had brought with him from M. Pasteur’s laborator 
a rabbit of the one hundred and fourteenth remove ( passage 
which had been inoculated with rabic virus, and that, with 1 
Pasteur’s consent, he was prepared to make preservative inocul' 
tions on persons who had been bitten by mad dogs, at Professc 
Albert’s clinic. At the same meeting Professor von Frisch showe 
three rabbits which had been inoculated with parts of the spin; 
cord taken from rabid animals. He had already inoculated 
large series of animals after Pasteur’s method, and had alwa} 
observed the same appearances : From eleven to fifteen days afte 
the trephining and the injection of the rabic virus, the animal 
remained quite healthy; afterward they ceased to eat, and turne< 
on their sides in the cage, presenting the appearance of genera 
paralysis. On being touched with a stick, however, they wer 
very sensitive and were immediately seized with cramps and cod 
tractures; four or five days later they died. At the post-morten 
examinations he had never observed an abscess of the brain; th« 
cerebral wound healed without any reaction. He had now receive< 
from M. Pasteur’s laboratory a rabbit inoculated with the vim 
fixe, and announced that he would begin his researches concern 
ing the attenuation of the virus.— From N. Y. Medical Journal 
An old Remedy against Hydrophobia. —It has recently com 
to light that the State of New York, in 1806, paid to John M 
Crous a thousand dollars for a remedy against hydrophobia whicl 
he considered infallible. The measure was advocated by DeWit 
Clinton and Chancellor Kent. This remedy consisted of on» 
ounce of the jaw-bone of a dog, burned and pulverized ; the falsi 
tongue of a newly foaled colt, dried and pulverized; and u i 
scruple of verdigreas,” raised on the surface of old copper by lay 
ing it in moist earth. The warrant of the Comptroller on whicl 
the money was paid, and the receipt of Crous, are on file witl 
other State papers at Albany.— Medical Record. 
Skepticism about Hydrophobia. —“We have been somewha 
surprised,” says the Neurological Review , “ to notice the readines; 
with which so many condemn the method of H. Pasteur for ar 
resting or preventing hydrophobia. Some have even gone so far 
as to intimate doubts as to the reality of any such disease. I 
