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puted to have been saved by the Pasteur treatment, had ben afflicted with any 

 such disease. 



"Prof. Briggs, of the Carnegie Laboratory, and Law, of Cornell, inocculated 

 dogs with material from the deceased pound-keeper, Neall, as I did from the de- 

 ceased Hertlin, and in every case with negative results. 



"The veterinarian, Runge, kept the dogs bitten by the suspected animal in quar- 

 antine for four months and then discharged them as not 'rabid.' Some children 

 bitten by the same dog and not treated by Pasteur are to-day known to me. They 

 are as free from disease as those who were subjected to the treatment. 



"Scores of observations might be added in bringing the review up to date, all 

 of which tend to show that the cases reported, including the eight Baltimore vic- 

 tims, were not sufferers of any trumped-up malady as 'rabies.' From what I have 

 learned of those of the latter who died after receiving the Pasteur treatment, I 

 should say they were poisoned, either by the inoculations or by ptomaine from 

 decayed teeth of the suspicious canine that bit them. Of the others who are be- 

 lieved to have been saved from the dreadful disease by Gibier's hand, I am satisfied 

 that in biting them the animal didnt' happen to get any of the poisonous saliva in 

 the wound or that their systems were not susceptible to the dangers of the Pasteur 

 inoculation. Science has proved that what is harmless to some persons may be 

 deadly to others. The followers of the Pasteur treatment, however, disregard this 

 established fact. 



"In Pennsylvania a number of persons were needlessly rendered unhappy by a 

 sensational report to the effect that 'rabies' had become epidemic in one of the 

 State's prosperous villages. A large number of school children and several adults 

 had been infected by dog bites. After several of the children and two of the adulta 

 had died, the dog which was a pet was located. The animal was found to be suf- 

 fering from epileptic fits, induced by his having swallowed a chicken bone. The 

 deaths caused by the bites were undoubtedly due to the same cause as I have ex- 

 plained in regard to the Baltimore victims. 



"As a whole, in alt the cases reported as 'lyssa,' 'rabies' or 'hydrophobia,' it 

 was either not shown that the subject had been bitten by a dog at all, or that the 

 dog had been mad in the Pasteur sense. Indeed, the errors that have been com- 

 mitted in this direction would be amusing were it not for other and tragical attend- 

 ant features. 



"Let it be inoculated in the public mind that the sensational symptoms which 

 tradition assigns to rabies are fictitious, and, like the fear of water which has given 

 a name to the malcondition, never occurs after the bite of a dog; that it is no more 

 possible for a dog to inoculate a man with the tendency to bark and run on all fours 

 than it is for a man to inoculate a dog with the faculty of speech and an upright 

 gait then what has been drifting through medical and newspaper literature as 

 rabies would disappear. 



"If once thoroughly understood by the people at large, that superstitious fear 

 and expectant attention may not alone develop serious nervous symptoms, but, also 

 actually cause death, many who assume themselves threatened with some rational 

 ill effects, such as ptomaine poisoning after a dog bite, would cultivate that health- 

 ful self-control, which was so happily inoculated by Dr. James Gordon Spencer in 

 the Watertown case, and Dr. Exton in the Arlington case." 



Herewith is reproduced HUGH DAI.ZIEL'S entire treatise on this subject. He is 

 a noted authority in England and the author of several books on dogs and horses. 

 You will see that he belives in hydrophobia, so you have now both sides of the ques- 



