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the Academy of Medicine, Professor of Physiology and Dean of 
the Paris faculty of Medicine; Mr. Paul Bert, Member of the 
Institute, Professor of General Physiology at the Faculty of 
Sciences of Paris ; Mr. H. Bouley, Member of the Institute and 
of the Academy of Medicine, Professor of Comparative Path¬ 
ology at the Museum of Natural History ; Dr. Villemin, Member 
of the Academy of Medicine, Professor of Clinical Medicine at 
the Military School of Medicine and Pharmacy of Paris ; Dr. 
Vulpeau, Member of the Institute and of the Academy of Med¬ 
icine, Professor of Comparative and Experimental P athology at 
the Faculty of Medicine of Paris; Mr. Tisserand, Director of 
the University of Agriculture. 
What the results may be is difficult to say; but no doubt 
all who claim an interest in sanitary science at least will watch 
them with anxiety. If Mr. Pasteur can render dogs refractory to 
any inoculation of rabid virus, what a giant step forward will it 
be in the history of the prophylaxy of the disease! If Mr. Pas¬ 
teur can prove the prevention of the appearance of the disease as 
results from the bite of a mad dog through a series of inoculations, 
the grand problem of its curability will no more be a doubt, and 
the world at large will recognize the grandeur of the great French 
chemist. Then probably we will never read any more opinions 
like those which were expressed lately by a member of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, and also by one of the officers of 
the State Board of Health, who had the shameful courage to 
treat the announcement of the possible curability of rabies as 
absurd and all gammon. 
SANITARY STATEMENTS AGAIN. 
In our last issue we asked our readers to send us information 
from which we could form quite a reliable statement of the ex¬ 
istence of contagious disease in the various parts of the country; 
and to assist our friends in sending the desired information we 
had placed in the Review a printed table which could be filled in 
a short time and would be of great use to us, having a space left for 
suggestions and remarks as to the project in view. Since the call 
