Pasteur and his work : being a lecture delivered before the Windsor and Eton Scientific Society, on Thursday, December 5th, 1889 / by Arthur E. Shipley.

  • Shipley, Arthur Everett, 1861-1927.
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1890
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Credit: Pasteur and his work : being a lecture delivered before the Windsor and Eton Scientific Society, on Thursday, December 5th, 1889 / by Arthur E. Shipley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / to be mad, from IB to 20 will die a most painful and horrible death. Pasteur, by bis treatment, bus succeeded in reducing this percentage of deaths to something under one. The diagram below, taken from Dr. Armand Mutter's article on The Prevention of Hydrophobia by M. Pasteur, * gives the percentages of deaths amongst the patients treated in his Institute for the year 1888. Table I.—January 1st to December Slst, 1888. A. B. C. Number of persons inoculated. 1626 1371 255 Mortality a „ ' b e 1-16 per cent. 0-79 0-55 1-31 per cent. 0-94 0-65 0-39 per cent. Nil. Nil. Table II.—Patients bitten on the Face or Head, and liaving undergone M. Pasteur's Treatment during the pear 1888. A. B. C. Number of persons inoculated. 123 109 14 Mortality a. ' b i 7-33 per cent. 4-80 2-44 „ 8-25 per cent. 5-41 2-75 „ Nil. Nil. Nil. Explanations.—Column A. in each table includes all the cases inoculated at the Pasteur Institute during the year. Column B. includes only patients bitten by animals proved to be rabid at the time they inflicted the wound. (Thi.v corresponds to columns A. and B. in M. Pasteur's own tables.) Column C. gives the number of patients bitten by animals which, though presumably rabid, coidd not be proved to have been so. Mortality a.=Total mortality, including patients dying during the progress of treatment. Mortality i.=Mortality after those who died during treatment have been excluded. Mortality c.=Mortality after those who died within four- teen days after the completion of treatment have been excluded. The hurst mortality in people bitten by rabid animals and not inoculated amounts to 15 per cent, at least. Taking the present year from Nov. 1st, 1888, to Nov. 1st, 1889, we find that out of 1830 patients, only II have died, giving an * The British Medical Journal, No. 1499, Sept. 21st. 1889.