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CHARLES H. DUNCAN. 
and have the wound cauterized. I don’t believe there is such a 
thing as hydrophobia in human beings; it’s a man’s own idea that 
drives them into what they term hydrophobia.” 
Three other men stood around while these four interviews 
were going on, all agreeing as to their experiences. All had 
many, many scars on their hands; they all told the same story; 
they all suck their wounds the first thing when bitten and they 
say they never have sepsis. (The writer is satisfied this is so, 
for it completely substantiates the well-known principle of auto¬ 
therapy he is developing.) 
The virus on the lips and tongue of the dog must infest the 
side of the wound, and the dog catcher’s lips and tongues must 
come directly in contact with this fresh virus. It is very prob¬ 
able that more of the virus gets into the patient’s mouth than in 
the wound. The writer offers the above testimony as further 
proof of his method of preventing sepsis. 
The writer is informed by the New York Health Department 
that their statistics show, during the first seven months of 1911, 
there were one hundred and seventy-three positively diagnosed 
rabid dogs seen by them in the City of Greater New York. This 
excludes those taken to the Pasteur Institute, so that the number 
in New York State must show an ever larger percentage, for 
farmers and people who live in suburbs and villages usually pos¬ 
sess a greater number of dogs per family than do the residents 
of New York City. 
The writer’s hunting dog was bitten by a mad dog that had 
previously bitten several cattle The cattle died of hydrophobia 
and the dog licked his wound and did not. 
Again there is a well authenticated case of hydrophobia in 
Paterson, N. J., that came under the medical supervision of Dr. 
Theodore Bender, 127 Hamburg avenue, Paterson, N. J., that 
has direct bearing on the subject under discussion. 
A little girl 8 years old, and her pet dog, were bitten by a 
dog, July 1, 1911. The father of the little girl immediately 
sucked her wound; she died of hydrophobia on July 25. The 
case was diagnosed by Dr. Wheeler, of the Pasteur Institute, 
