CLIPPINGS FROM MEDICAL PAPERS. 
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THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE. 
It is well known that several deaths have happened of per¬ 
ms who have undergone M. Pasteur’s method of protective in¬ 
sulation for rabies or were still undergoing the process, and it is 
) more than natural that each succeeding death should have had 
s effects in undermining the confidence that had come to be felt 
the system. Looking at the precise facts, however, we may 
ill cherish the feeling that a great triumph has been set on foot 
not already accomplished. 
On the 5th of this month, as we learn from the “ Gazette 
sbdomadaire de medecine et de chirurgie,” the Paris Cornell 
■unicipal ceded to the society of the Institut Pasteur , by a* vote 
: thirty-three to fourteen, for a period of ninety-nine year§, the 
nd that had previously been allotted to it for thirty years only. 
In the course of a discussion that preceded the vote, a statis- 
:^al statement was furnished giving the results thus far accom- 
ished. The whole number of persons treated amounted to 
; 656, of whom 15 had died; 1,009 of these persons belong in 
ranee, and 3 of them died; 182 (including 50 bitten by rabid 
olves) came from Russia, and 11 of them died (3 after dog-bites 
id 8 after wolf-bites); 20 from Rou mania, of whom 1 died ; 
id 59 from England, 17 from Austria, 74 from Algeria, 18 
om America, 2 from Brazil, 42 from Belgium, 58 from Spain, 
; from Greece, 8 from Holland, 25 from Hungary, 105 from 
aly, 20 from Portugal, 2 from Turkey, and 2 from Switzerland, 
>no of whom died. 
Including the cases of persons bitten by rabid wolves, who 
rnish more than half the deaths,the total mortality amounts, 
erefore, to less than one per cent. Surely this is most en- 
uraging. It will scarcely be maintained that any such propor- 
)n of immunity would have followed in the natural course of 
ings, at least among those who do not utterly deny the exist- 
ce of rabies as a specific disease; and the objection that time 
ough has not elapsed to enable us to judge of the fate of the 
tten persons, in view of the long incubation popularly ascribed 
the disease, is fast losing its force, for some of the cases date 
