Whatever other results may be produced by the Con- gress
of Hygiene, we trust that it may not result in such an Institute of Preventive Medicine as the Pasteur Institute in Paris, which some of the members of the Congress of Hygiene seem to desire. It is asserted that a very great diminution in the number of deaths from hydrophobia has been produced by M. Pasteur's inoculation, though, so far as we know, the only substantial evidence to that effect is the proof that in some cases dogs inoculated by M. Pasteur's method, and afterwards bitten by dogs unques- tionably mad, have not died of rabies or suffered from the bite, while other dogs not so inoculated have shown all the symp- toms of rabies, and died from its consequences. In other instances, however, the inoculation did not save even the dogs. The figures as regards human patients are of no value at all, as it is quite impossible to say how many of them were really cases of bites by mad dogs, and how many by merely ill-tempered. dogs.
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