M. PASTEUR'S CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1656, 7 September 1887, Page 3

M. PASTEUR'S CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA

The death of an English peer from hydrophobia, after undergoing the celebrated Paftenr treatment for the prevention of that frightful disease, will, (says the "New Zea and Times,") greatly shake the growing corfidenoe ia M. Pasteur's treatment, Lord Doneraile, who has met this dreadful fate, was an Irish Yisoount, and one of the representative peers. Befog horn m 1818, he had attained his 69 h year, and he succeeded to the title ia 1854. Having been accidentally bitten by a tame fox, which afterward showed symptoms of what was believed to be rabies, he placed himself m M. Pasteur's hands, and underwent the treatment by inoculation with "attenuated virnt" whioh the great French savant hn rendered so f»m ni. Apparei tl;|it vn successful, and no doubt tbe ill-fated nobleman hoped that the horrible danger had been averted. Onrloosly enough, the point raised by those who disbelieved the efficacy of the treatment was not that Lord Doneraile was not cared, but that the disease was probably not rabies, therefore that he would not have bad hydrophobia m any case. Unhappily the views of both parties have been falsified by the event, the Yincount having at length succumbed to tbe fatil poison which had boen abtorbed into hla ■yatetn. It io by no meant impossible that his melancholy case will now be used m *upp< rfc of another contention set np against the Pasteur treatment, nunely. that it may give hydrophobia while professing to avert it.