American Veterinary Review, 
JANUARY, 1886. 
EDITORIAL. 
HYDROPHOBIA NOW—GLANDERS NEXT. 
The horrors of hydrophobia have, within a few weeks, conse¬ 
quent upon the lamentable occurrences recently witnessed in 
Newark, again forced themselves upon the public attention, and 
the excitement following the fresh invasion has merged itself into 
a general and deep-seated anxiety throughout the community. 
Our friend Mr. Billings has taken charge of the children bit¬ 
ten in Newark, on their way to Paris to he confided to the treat¬ 
ment of Pasteur, and our confrere Mr. Sattler has also gone to 
place himself under Pasteur’s treatment, under similar disastrous 
circumstances. The daily papers are of course more or less full 
of the literature of hydrophobia, and suggestions and disserta¬ 
tions and reports of infallible remedies abound in their columns. 
But to what end is all this ? Every one has an opinion ; every 
one a remedy. Every veterinarian has a most marvelous case to 
record, from the man who, “ with a motion only known to 
experts,” breaks the back of a rabid dog on his knees, without 
incurring inoculation, to the man who inoculates rabies to goats! 
or the person who takes the temperature daily, and finds it from 
108° to 109°, down to the wielder of remedy with the pro¬ 
phylaxy of an inoculated wound by liquor ammonia, or greater 
and more famous than all, that mysterious bit of geology known 
as the old-fashioned “ mad-stone.” All and more of this kind are 
newly served up, some fresh, some as “ old as the hills.” 
