Clinical Report of a Case of Rabies Treated With Neosalvarsan and Quinin: Together With a Case of Lyssophobia

The interest aroused by the publications of Tonin, 1 Moon 2 and Harris 3 in the finding of a drug that would act as a specific for rabies warrants the publication of a report of this case, which was treated with both neosalvarsan and quinin. C. M., Mexican, aged 10, was bitten, July 18, 1913, by a rabid dog, the left forearm and throat being badly lacerated; the wounds were cauterized and dressed daily at the charity clinic. Pasteur treatment was persistently urged but refused. About August 2 the boy became depressed and anxious and told the office girl at the clinic that he knew he was going mad. There were cephalalgia, loss of appetite accompanied by gastric uneasiness and nausea; the patient's mental condition gradually grew worse and at times he was intermittently delirious. I saw him on the morning of August 6; the wounds were healed, but the