19G iTYDROPITOmA. 



"Dr. Stockweii, a celebrated authority on dog disease, says: 'Distem- 

 per, toothache, earache, epilepsy and the whole class of nervous diseases to 

 which dogs are subject are constantly taken for rabies. Personally, after 

 moio than thirty years' experience as - a dog owner and student of canine 

 and comparative medicine, I have yet to meet with a genuine case of rabies 

 in the dog, and of some scores of so-called rabid dogs submitted to me 

 for inspection I have found one and all to be suffering from other and 

 comparatively innocent diseases.' 



"Dr. Charles W .Dulles, the eminent lecturer on the History of Medi- 

 cine at the University of Pennsylvania, says: 'After 16 years of investigation' 

 'he has failed to find a single case of hydrophobia 'that can be conclusively 

 proved to have resulted from the bite of a dog or any other cause.' 



Dr. Dulles says in regard to thej.reatment of a dog bite: "I am strong- 

 ly opposed to the practice of cauterizing with silver nitrate. I have seen 

 and treated very many dog bites, and have not used lunar caustic for 13 

 years, and no person that I have treated has yet developed hydrophobia, 

 or that the mortality of those treated by me is less than that of those 

 treated in Pasteur institutes. My treatment is simply through surgical 

 cleaning and the application of a simple antiseptic dressing for a few 

 days, with the positive assurance that there will be no danger of any dis- 

 ease." 



Dr. Irving C. Rosse says in a paper read before the American Neuro- 

 logical Association, Philadelphia, June 3, 1895: "In Asia Minor and in 

 Constantinople, the home of pariah dogs, one never hears of hydrophobia. 

 The secretary of the Japanese legation in Washington tells me that he has 

 never known of the disease in Japan, and that in Korea, with more dogs 

 than any other country, such a thing as hydrophobia is unheard of. In 

 London, with its five and one-half million inhabitants? but one case was 

 reported in 1892." 



Dr. Dulles finds from statistics gathered in the United States, that 

 there is only one hydrophobia case to four million inhabitants. Of 267 per- 

 sons in the U. S. bitten by dogs supposed to be rabid, he says only eight 

 persons have died. • 



Many of the best physicians recommended hot water baths for dog 

 bites, as is done in India, rather than the Pasteur system, with its great 

 expense and doubtful results. Professor Peter, the able editor of the French 

 Medical Journal, says: "M. Pasteur does not cure hydrophobia — he gives 

 it!" A physician describes the system as the "inoculating usually wholly 

 uncontaminated human beings with the most terrible virus known to science 

 — to-wit, that of hydrophobia." 



"The Pasteur advocates admit that only from 5 to 10 per cent of per- 

 sons bitten by a rabid animal ever have hydrophobia, with no treatment 

 whatever. The writer of this article has been bitten several times, and 

 would never allow the wound to be cauterized. 



"Even if there be such a disease as hydrophobia in man, which is 

 probably blood poisoning ( a thorn of a rose, the prick of a pin, the scratch 

 of a baby's finger nail, the point of a lead pencil stuck behind the ear, the 

 cut on the neck of a stiff linen collar have all produced blood poisoning), 

 and if there be such a disease as rabies in a dog, which is probably dis- 

 temper or epilepsy, it does not seem to be found among the homeless or 

 unlicensed dogs, or those that roam the streets, which are the ones killed 

 from the cruel supposition that they especially are dangerous. 



"Dr. Matthew Woods, of Philadelphia, says: 'At the Philadelphia dog 

 pound, where, on an average, over 6,000 vagrant dogs are taken up an- 

 nually, and where the catchers and helpers are frequently bitten, not one 

 case of hydrophobia has occurred during its entire history of 2 5 years, in 

 which time 150,000 dogs have been handled.' 



"At the dog shelter in New York City the Superintendent told me he 

 had been bitten over a hundred times and paid no attention to it what- 

 ever. In killing 50,000 unlicensed dogs each year, to the great shame of an 

 indifferent money-getting city, New York has not found one case of rabies. 

 London, Eng., kills nearly the same number, and has not seen a case 



