Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — RABIES IN WOLVES. [ARTICLE]

RABIES IN WOLVES.

M. Pasteur Not Discouraged by the Death of One of His Russian 2 , - Patients. ....... ~ (Parts spacial.) I have just had the following interview with M. Pasteur about the death from hydrophobia of the. Russian Mujik, Kafamrow:-•.■'"■ '' ■’■ .j- * Correspondent—Was rabies the cause of Kajhsnrow’s death? - M. Pasteur—Undoubtedly. ' Correspondent —Do yon consider bis death shoiys that his treatment by inocnlatlon was Mjejficacious? M. Pasteur—By no means. It prozes thfif the virus of a mad wolf is more intense and works more rapidly than the virus of a mad dog. Kajusnrow was bitten March 1. He died of rabies nineteen days after the bite. He had only received seven inoculations, and virus of seiicjns strength can only be used on the sixth inoculation. His wound was terrible. Part of his jaw was torn awiiy, and the wolfs fangs penetrated right through® And caused what amounted almost to direct inoculation into the brain of the wolf’s virus. lam informed by physicians from Russia, where bites from mad wolves are more common than those from inad dogs, that death after the bite of a mad wOlf often occurt sixteen days after the bite, and that 95 per cent, of those bitten by mad wolves die of rabies. Thus, in the pure interest of Science, the death of Kajusurow may be considered a benefit. The autopsy made yesterday proves conclusively that Kajusnrow’ died" of rabies. If the treatment succeeds in the cases of the eighteen others bitten by the same wolf what demonstration can be more complete? Correspondent—These Mnjikc, then, present the most severe test that the prophylactic method has yet been subjected to? M. Pasteur—Yes, I think so. While conversing those Russians Mujiks whose wounds enabled (hem to leave the hospital arrived at the laboratory. They were depressed at the death of their comrade, but were confident of the success of M. Pasteur’s treatment so far as they were concerned. They all boots, and filledlhe laboratory with a most acrid smell of Russian leather- and -tnr. —They received their last inoculation to-day, but will remain in Paris a month longer. M-, Pasteur and Dr. Grancher visit the other Russians, who are still confined to their beds at the hospital, every day. Thepriest’s wounds are so severe that hiis lip and part of his cheek are to be cut away in, a few days. Another Mujik is suffering from fever. The Russian Ambassador and Baroness de Mohrenheim take great interest in them, sending them Russian tea, vodka, pickles, and other national refreshments. .