186 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



hag been frothing at the mouth, which is never a sign of rabies, but of sickness or 

 a fit: is chased by a crowd and after crawling under some porch or shed for pro- 

 tection, is killed by the random and numerous shots of some policemen. 



"We ought to learn from the experience of others that there is very little 

 danger from the bite of a dog. Let any person ask a dozen men if they have ever 

 been bitten by a dog and probably more than half will say yes, in boyhood or later 

 in life, with no evil results whatever. 



"Dr. Gordon Stables, a prominent Englishman, says: 'All my life I have been 

 among dogs, I have written five books on them. I have handled as many as 30,000 

 dogs a year. I have been bitten very often, and care no more for a bite than I do 

 for the scratch of a pin; yet I have never seen a case of rabies, and I do not be- 

 lieve such exists.' 



"Surgeon General Thornton says: 'I have served in India for thirty-five years, 

 and was for many years in medical charge of a large Indian district, with a popu- 

 lation of 2,000,000. Six dispensaries where about 100,000 people were treated 

 annually were under my superintendence, yet, although dog bites were frequent, I 

 never met a single case of hydrophobia in a native Indian, and I believe that the 

 experience of others who have been civil surgeons in India is similar to mine.' 



"Dr. Stockwell, a celebrated authority on dog disease, says: 'Distemper, 

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

 are subject are constantly taken for rabies. Personally, after more 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 Medicine 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 the treatment of a dog bite: "I am strongly op 

 posed 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 treat- 

 ment is simply thorough surgical cleaning and the application of a simple anti- 

 septic dressing for a few days, with the positive assurance that there will be no 

 danger of any disease." 



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

 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 Jap 

 anese 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 inhab- 

 itants, 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 persons 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 



