HYDROPHOBIA " ~ 197 



among its unlicensed clogs. Among the thousands of dogs killed after the 

 brutal muzzling order in Washington, n. C, last year not one case of rabies 

 was found. Let the poor people keep dogs. They are good companions for 

 their children, and do not lead to the workhouse or the jail. They are the 

 best guard for our houses where there are no police; indeed cheaper than 

 policemen, and usually more easily found when wanted. We spend money 

 to give playgrounds and entertainments for children, and that Is well, but 

 their dogs give them more comfort, usually, than almost any other one 

 thing, as boys and girls will universally testify. 



"Let the dogs live. The cars will necessarily kill some. They are not 

 long lived at the best. They give us devotion, companionship, and ought 

 to make us kinder and more gentle, from their helplessness and dependence 

 upon us. They are good friends, to some very unfeeling people. Do not 

 chain them up. Repeal our cruel laws. Let us, a professedly Christian city, 

 be as humane as the unchristian Turk, or the worshipers of Buddha in 

 India. Let us honor ourselves by doing justice to the speechless. Let the 

 dogs live." 



Here I give a cure for hydrophobia, a clipping, from a paper: 



"The time between the biting of an animal by a mad dog and the show- 

 ing signs of hydrophobia is not less than nine days, but may be nine months. 

 After the animal has become rabid the scratch of a tooth upon a person or 

 slobber coming in contact with a sore, or raw place, will produce hydropho- 

 bia just the same as if bitten by a mad dog. 



"Hydrophob'a can be prevented, and I will give what is known to be 

 an infallible remedy for man and beast if properly administered. A dose 

 for a horse or cow should be four times as much as for a person. It is 

 not too late to give the medicine any time before the spasms come on. 

 The dose for a person is one and one-half ounces of elecamnane root bruised, 

 put in a pint of new milk, reduced one-half by boil'ng; take all at once in 

 the morning, fasting until the afternoon, or at least a very light diet until 

 several hours are passed. The second dose same as first, except take two 

 ounces of the root. The third same as the second. Three doses are all 

 that are needed and there need be no fear, as I know from my own experi- 

 ence, and know of numbers of cases where it was entirely successful. This 

 is no guesswork. The persons alluded to had been bitten by their own dogs, 

 which were then tied up to see if they were really mad. They proved to be 

 mad and the remedy was successful. A physician told me he had known 

 of the use of this remedy for over thirty years and never knew it to fail 

 when properly administered. He related a case where a number of cows 

 were bitten, and penned half in one pen and half in another; to half the 

 remedy was given and were saved. The other half died from hydrophobia." 



Let us not become insane on the hydrophobia question. Let the dogs 

 have plenty of water, don't tie them up in hot weather, and don't make the 

 poor animals chase for miles after a bicycle, carriage or electric car on a hot 

 •and dusty road. If there is a spectacle humiliating to those who wish to 

 respect their fellow man. it is the sight of a dog, in the last stages of ex- 

 haustion, struggling to keep up with some vehicle upon which his selfish 

 master is taking his ease, unmindful of ils misery. 



The following article was written by D. E. Salmon, D. V. M., Chief of 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry, in the Yearbook of the Department of 

 Agriculture, issued at Washington, D. C, and as will be seen, he is a firm 

 believer in rabies. I reproduce it as authority from the other side of the 

 question. 



This is the concluding speech to the jury by the "Prosecuting Attorney," 

 whose duty it is to always find the prisoner guilty: 



"The symptoms of rabies are such as we should expect from serious 

 disease of the central organs of the nervous system: F'rsr, Irritation; sec- 

 ond, paralysis and death. The rabies virus appears to have little effect upon 

 the system until it reaches the brain and spinal cord. There it multiplies, 

 sets up irritation, and finally interrupts the functions. 



"Rabies is generally divided into two forms: First, furious rabies; 

 second, dumb rabies. In the former the animal is irritable, aggressive, and 



