Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1913 — PASTEUR TREATMENT CURED MANY PATIENTS [ARTICLE]

PASTEUR TREATMENT CURED MANY PATIENTS

Only 2 Deaths Outof 131 Treated ‘for Rabies' Since Laboratory v Was Established. Since the establishment of the pasteuT laboratory, Jufte 12, 1911, the Indiana state board of health has treated 131 persons to prevent rabies. Only two of that number died. In his monthly report Dr, Will Shimer, superintendent of the state pathological laboratory, presents data concerning the results of the pasteur treatment as administered in big laboratories of European cities and reaches the conclusion that the deaths of two persons taking the treatment in Im diana “can not be attributed to a failure of the treatment, but must be due to the short Incubation period—thirty-six days—which did not permit the establishment of immunity.” Statistics show, says Dr. Shimer, that the total mortality of persons bitten, having received the anti-rabies inoculation, is pretty constantly about 1 per cent. There are at this time sixteen persons receiving the anti-rabies treatment at the state laboratory.