DEATH OF ANOTHER PASTEUR PATIENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7650, 29 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

DEATH OF ANOTHER PASTEUR PATIENT.

A Paris correspondent telegraphed as follows recently :—" Another of the first batch of M. Pa3tcur's Ruseian patients has died. This is the third death. He was named Golowviuski. In personal appearance he was short, fat, fair, and eH'ominiito looking. Nevertheless, ho showed the greatest possible courage in hia encounter with the wolf, from which, after saving hia sister Donia, ho escaped by climbing up a tree. I saw his wounds dressed. They were the least terrible-look-ing, but the mast numerous of any inilicted by the rabid animal. Lie appeared quite well until a fow days ago, whou he was taken with what resembled a violent lib of aathina. Word was sent of hia illness to M. Paeteur, at the Hotel Dieu, whither he was taken in a stretcher. When asked whether lie Bufl'erod much he said ' No,' and tried to hide hia sufferings. Those in tho next room, when he was by himself, heard him pray to God to be Epeedily delivered. He died next moruing of paralysis of the lungs. Three new Kussiau patients, who are also wolfbitten, have come from Penza, and seven Philanders bitten by a dog are expected. An elderly English lady has also arrived. She %vas bitten by a mad cat; maybe the animal was only furious. The lady killed it herself, and bad it immediately buried. Oue of the moat interesting cases iu treatment at the Rue d'Olra is that of a Portuguese. Tho dog by which he was attacked bit another dog, who died of rabies. Up to date 711 have boen treated by M. Paateur." A woman named Mardlin, belonging to Walkern, and a boy named Totmon, of Western (both villages iu the north of Hertfordshire), who had been bitten by a mad dog, started for Paris to be treated by M. Pasteur. They n ,joor people, but the circumstance caused ijuch excitement in tho district, and a subscription was started by tho vicars of Clothall aud Weston for the purpose of defraying tho expenses, which arc eatimatsd to come to betweeu £30 and £4U.