Experiments on Animals - Stephen Paget

	Patients.	Deaths.	Mortality.		Patients.	Deaths.	Mortality.
Bites of the Head	1,759	21	1.1	A	2,872	20	0.69
Bites of the Hands	11,118	53	0.47	B	12,547	61	0.48
Bites of the Limbs	7,289	22	0.30	C	4,747	15	0.31
	20,166	96	0.46		20,166	96	0.46

III

In regard to their nationality, the 1521 patients treated at the Pasteur Institute in 1897 were as follows:—

Germany		8
England		83
Belgium		14
Egypt		2
United States		1
Greece		1
India		33
Switzerland		33

That is, 175 foreigners and 1346 French.

Notes of the eight cases where the treatment failed:—

1. Camille Bourg, 26. Bitten 11th April; treated at the Pasteur Institute, 13th to 30th April; died of rabies at the Lariboisière Hospital, 26th May. Six penetrating bites on the ball of the left thumb. The dog was examined by M. Grenot, a veterinary surgeon at Paris, and the dissection gave evidence of rabies. Another person bitten and treated at the same time as Bourg is now in good health.

2. Louis Fiquet, 23. Bitten 22nd April; treated at the Pasteur Institute, 23rd April to 10th May; died of rabies at the Necker Hospital, 4th June. Five bites, two of them deep, round the right thumb. They had been cauterised five hours after infliction. The dog was examined by M. Caussé, a veterinary surgeon at Boulogne, and the dissection gave evidence of rabies. Another person bitten at the same time as Fiquet is now in good health.

3. Annette Beaufort, 19. Licked on the hands, which were chapped, on 15th April. The dog was killed next day, examined, and declared to have been rabid by M. Lachmann, a veterinary surgeon at Saint-Étienne. Treated at the Pasteur Institute, 20th April to 7th May. Died of rabies 14th October. Two other persons bitten by the same dog and treated at the Pasteur Institute are now in good health.