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IN the article in NATURE under the above title the writer says (p. 74):ββThe probability of rabies following the bite of a rabid dog is now definitely ascertained to be from 15 to 16 per cent, of those attacked.β It would greatly assist all who desire to form an impartial estimate of the value of Pasteur's researches on rabies as far as they are deducible from a comparison of statistics, if the writer would state the facts and figures on which the above computation of 15 to 16 per cent. rests. The statement is repeatedly made, but the proof is never given along with it. It is obvious that, unless this percentage is proved beyond dispute, the statistical argument will be lacking in cogency and force, and leaves a loophole for attack by those who are ever ready to depreciate and oppose the brilliant investigations of M. Pasteur.
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PARKYER, E. The Pasteur Institute. Nature 39, 128 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039128a0
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