188 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



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. Thev proved to be mad and the rem- 

 edy 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 roadi 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 exhaustion, struggling to keep up with 

 some vehicle upon which his selfish master is taking his ease, unmindful of its 

 misery. 



The following article was written by D. B. 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: First, irritation; second, 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 function. 



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

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

 every object which comes its way; in the latter the muscles of its jaw are para- 

 lyzed almost from the first appearance of symptoms, and being unable to bite, the 

 animal remains more quiet and tranquil. Essentially the two forms of the disease 

 are the same, but owing to the parts of the brain attacked and the acuteness of the 

 attack, paralysis appears much sooner in one of these forms than in the other. 

 The saliva from a case of dumb rabies is just ,as dangerous and virulent as that 

 from a case of furious rabies. The dogs with dumb rabies are less dangerous sim- 

 ply because they are unable to bite and thus insert their saliva into a wound. 



"The impression should not be formed that dumb rabies and furious rabies 

 always represent two distinct types of disease, and that one may at a glance classify 

 every case as belonging to one or the other of these types. Quite the contrary. The 

 typical cases belong to the two extremes of symptoms, and there are all gradations 

 between the two. In fact, almost every case of furious rabies sooner or later 

 change into the dumb form, that is, the final stage of rabies is almost invariably 

 paralytic, and the dumb form in its typical development occurs when the paralysis 

 appears on the first day of the disease. The paralysis may not appear, however, until 

 the second, or third, or some subsequent day. 



"Again, a dog does not necessarily bite everything about it even though it has 

 rabies and its jaws are not paralyzed. It may be combative and furious all of the 

 time, or only a part of the time, or not at all. There is no disease in which the 



