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G. ARCHIE STOCKWELL. 
theories and methods of M. Pasteur, farther than to remark the 
lack confirmation, are not in any way supported by any physiol* 
gist or pathologist of reputation or note, since they controvei 
established and proven physiological and pathological facts, ai 
faulty and unreliable in that they have not been submitted to tl: 
tests of control experiments, whereby are developed those neg; 
tive elements which alone establish the value of the positive, an 
rest solely upon the unsupported evidence and assertions of the 
authors. Years must elapse ere any satisfactory or definite coi 
elusion can be drawn from Pasteur’s methods, even if the principl 
were true; and the microbe theory involved, however logical, y( 
awaits the discovery of the microbes themselves. 
At the present moment the civilized world is unfortunatel 
afflicted with a wide-sweeping epidemic of lyssa-phobia — rab 
phobia , if you will. Spurious rabies was never more prevalen 
and has arisen in part from the ignorance of the general pubbl 
and their medical advisers, but chiefly by a widely disseminate( 
ill-advised literature, that is the outgrowth of the sensational. ] 
is to be feared also, that M. Pasteur’s skirts are not wholly clea 
in this matter, in that he has given tacit encouragement, if n< 
material aid to such procedures, and thereby provoked the enmit 
of the ablest minds of Europe, including his own countrymei 
who do not hesitate to accuse him of fostering evil to the moi 
base of personal ends. 
With a view to affording more general information regardin 
a subject little understood, and of allaying in some slight measui 
the senseless alarm that has resulted in the torture and death c 
innumerable innocent canines, I offer a few established, indi 
putable facts. 
True rabies primarily appears as a disease of the canidc 
secondarily to a slight extent, of other true carnivoroe. It 
not contagious, but an acute infectious malady of extremely ra\ 
occurrence ! 
Rabies never arises spontaneously. It can only be comruun 
cated and propagated by direct infection ; that is, by the bite <j 
some creature in whom the disease is fully developed , wherebj 
the rabic virus is brought in immediate contact with the circul: 
