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back now more than a year. Even if we were to concede the 
non-existence of rabies, and accept the view that those who are 
supposed to die of it really perish from fright, M. Pasteur would 
still be entitled to the gratitude of mankind for having saved 
1, 641 persons from d} r ing of fright.— JV. M. Med. Journal. 
RECENT EXPERIMENTS WITH PASTEUR’S INOCULATION 
METHOD IN VIENNA. 
Some time ago Dr. Ullmann, of Vienna, went to Paris and 
studied Pasteur’s method of preventive inoculation for rabies. 
He brought virus and all the necessary materials for establishing 
a laboratory in Vienna, and the work of manufacturing the rab¬ 
bit’s cords has been successfully going on. He finally undertook 
preventive inoculations upon men, and up to a recent date had 
operated upon sixty-one persons supposed to have been bitten by 
rabid dogs, so far without a death. 
As an offset to these practical results, Professor v. Fritsch has 
been making some experiments, which appear to show that the 
Pasteur method is inefficient upon persons who have, beyond any 
doubt, received the virus into the system. 
He took sixteen rabbits and, having trepanned them, inserted 
the rabic virus directly beneath the membranes. He then began 
at once to perform the preventive inoculations, as done by Pas¬ 
teur. Despite these, every one of the rabbits died of hydropho¬ 
bia, as was shown by inoculating other healthy rabbits with bits 
of the medulla of the dead animals. Another series of rabbits, 
for a control experiment, was trepanned and inoculated, but did 
not subsequently receive preventive inoculations. These also all 
died. A second series of experiments was performed with simi¬ 
lar results, except that one rabbit did survive. A similar experi¬ 
ment with a similar result was performed upon five dogs. 
Thus it seems that in cases in which the virus is, beyond all 
question, deposited in the nervous system, the results of preventive 
inoculations are nil. But it must be admitted that Professor 
Fritsch’s tests were very severe, and it cannot be said that they 
prove that the preventive inoculations are futile when the vims 
is only deposited in the superficial soft tissues of the body. 
—Medical Record. 
