HYDROPHOBIA. 



To speak out plain and honest, I do n,ot believe in hydrophobia at all, for I 

 don't believe what I don't see, and a good deal that I do see. Many others, and 

 among them noted authorities, however, do believe in the existence of such a 

 disease, and in writing on this subject I shall give you my own ideas and belief, 

 and also those of others more noted than myself so you can read it all and 

 believe as you like. 



T have spent a lot of time since my first book in collecting additional informa- 

 tion and statistics on this subject, as it is an important one to know all about 

 that you can, and I consider that in this article all has been said that cam be said. 

 The authorities I quote, pro. and con., are eminent, and the case is now presented 

 to you, the jury, to decide: 



It might be considered presumptious and egotistical in me to say that there 

 is no such disease, but I can honestly say that I have never seen a case, and 

 don't believe in it, and I have as good a right to-day to have "gone mad" as any 

 one who was ever bitten by a dog, for I carry scars on my body that have been 

 there for many years from bites of dogs and I have been bitten hundreds of 

 times in the past thirty years. While I am writing this article I have five sores 

 on my right wrist received yesterday from a boarder, a mastiff, but I fully 

 expect to be able to finish this book and live for many years yiet, long enough 

 at least to see it in the hands tof every dog owner in this country; in fact, I 

 never had time to "go mad." 



In handling dogs of all breeds, strange dogs, curs and thorough-breds. inci- 

 dental to having been a "dog- crank" for thirty-five years, it necessarily follows 

 that I have had u vast and varied experience, and could not have done all this and 

 not get bitten. The bite from a dog does not trouble me any more than if I cut 

 my finger, whiah might be inconvenient and bothersome for a few days. The 

 only thing I have ever done when bitten, if the bite was on a part of the body 

 where I could get my lips to it, was to at once suck the blood from the place 

 bitten and spit it out. This ends the matter there and then with me. There 

 might have been danger of blood poisoning, as there always is from a wound, but 

 if so, how simple to suck out this poison and at once get rid of all danger by 

 spitting out the poison you have abstracted from the wound. It must be done 

 immediately, however. Is there anything more simple than this? 



In case you are bitten on any portion of the body that you could not get at 

 to suck the wound, or some one was not near to do this for you, then apply 

 Peroxyde of Hydrogen to the bite. Allow it to remain on for a minute or so, 

 then remove the foamy matter produced thereby by squeezing onto it some water 

 from a sponge or ,cloth. Then keep the wound clean by applying the Peroxyde 

 three or four times a day and using often the antiseptic solution given under 

 leading of "Bites." 



Now, should you be bitten by a dog, if you are a sensible person, not nervous 

 or easily scared, have not read too many highly colored and sensational "mad 

 dog" items in the newspapers (which kill more people than dogs do), and kesp 



