The relations of the diseases of animals to those of man.
- International Congress of Hygiene and Demography
- Date:
- 1892
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Credit: The relations of the diseases of animals to those of man. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![If an entire country is infected with rabies, then suppressive measures should be applied to the whole area, uniformly and energetically, until the malady is perfectly extinct. If only a portion of a country is visited by it, then it is questionable whether such measures should be limited to that portion only. If it were possible to keep all the dogs it contains within its boundaries, then such a step Avould suffice, if a certain zone around it were established beyond which no infected animals should pass. But it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to establish such a barrier ; and to effectively rid a country of rabies, though only partially infected, the sanitary police measures should be applied to the whole. That such a result is possible has been proved by the experience of the countries I have named; and from these examples, and from what we now know of the disease, it may certainly be affirmed that rabies need only exist in a country which does not desire to get rid of it. The United Kingdom can quickly and easily free itself from it, and keep itself free if it cares to do so; and a heavy responsibility for the loss of human life rests upon those who oppose, or do not choose to adopt, the measures indicated. Continental nations with co-terminous frontiers should combine in a simultaneous effort to abolish a scourge which creates so much dread, and causes so much suffering and terrible death to man and beast. Such a consummation can be realised; and it only needs the will to effect it. / Etudes sur la Rage et sur la Vaccination antirabique. PAR le Professeur V. Babes, Bucarest. [This Paper was originally contributed to Section II.] Les recherches sur la vaccination antirabique ont ete pour ainsi dire, terminees quand M. Pasteur eut commerce le traitement antirabique chez I’homme; il ne restait presque que des questions d’un interet secondaire, mais qui cependant avaient leur importance dans la pathologie de la rage, dont I’etude est devenue facile, grace aux decouvertes epocales de M. Pasteur. Etiologie et histologie.—Kous avons d’abord etudie la rage au point de vue de son etiologie, mais jusqu’a present nos efforts sont restes sans resultat, le microbe de la rage n’est pas trouve, et il faut se demander si avec nos moyens actuels de recherches nous le trouverons. Les methodes connues de culture ne donnent pas un resultat concluant, et le microscope ne nous montre pas des parasites analogues aux microbes. Il est vrai que dans les preparations fraiches ou colorees avec toutes les methodes perfectionnees, on trouve beaucoup d’elements suspects, meme plus ou moins caracteristiques, mais pas un seul de ces elements ne nous donne des garanties pour sou role essentiel dans cette maladie.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28045452_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
