The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-19

Cured at various periods and in various places.
The FIRST was in ST. GEORGES Hospital. London. A
child was attacked, having been bitten by dog in
the crotch between the finger and the thumb. He
died. The second case was that OF q
man who, in letting his pointer loose
alter being chained up, was bitten very
slightly IN the arm above the wrist, and was at
tackled with hydrophobia, from which he died.
The third was IN New York. and the fourth
was the recent case OF Miss Ada Clare, who was
bitten in the nose by her lapdog and also died in
the greatest suffering. This latter case, which
created some excitement at the time, he person
ally attended. and, therefore, all the particu
lars or II was about four weeks after the bite
that the lady first showed active symptoms OF the
disease and gradually grew worse. IL was only
during the last hours OF the disease that ne dr.
Carnochan) was called in to attend. Though suf-
ferng terrible agony the patient knew him per-
fecty well and begged Of him to bleed her death in
one OF her intermissions OF consciousness. He told
the doctor In attendance that he would recommend
TINCrURE OF CALABAR BEAN
as a remedy. This suggestion was acted upon, and
the suferings OF the patient Immediately became
less There is no doubt that this medicament Is
especially good during hydroph0bia and had 1t
been administered sooner during this he be-
lieved that 1t might possibly have been eicacious
In curing the patient entirely. At the time he was
called in, however, there was no more hope, and
Ada Clare was doomed. In this case, as in every
other he attended, the symptoms OF the disease
were clear and distinct, and there could be no
doubt as to what 1t was. They were precisely the
same In the three other cases he had seen.
REPoRrBR-it has been denied by some that n.y.
drophobia existed.
DIR. CARNoCHAN-I know 1t, and during the past
few weeks since the subject has been ag.ated l
have seen the statement made in some paper But
tins Is wrong. VIII stake my professional repu-
and distinct disease as typhus fever. There can
be no conioundlng 1t with tetanus or lockjaw.
sn erea nm many nave nea tnar ane Two were
great divisions between them. Tetanus affects the
nervous system and, through II. the spinal cord.
Lockjaw, on The contrary, affects the blood, and,
through It, the brain and the UPPER portion
OF the spinal marrow. Tetanus, through the
trarv, only affects the muscles of the
throat and respiratory organs ana does not
muscles into all manner OF positions, sometimes
drawing the body back so that the head actually
son OF Mr.. sistere the banker, whom attended.
Hydrophobia never has any such effect as this, but
mercy mas It's acton upon the osS @
dispa stlon to bite. species OF viscus forms In
the throat and there Is
CONSTANT MUSCULAR MOVEMENT
Of the mouth to make 1t come up and spit it out.
This has the appearance OF biting. or course,
when the brain turns and the patient becomes
same movement OF the mouth Continues apd the
bite takes place altogether Without any perso6ai
a ssf Ssssssa n TeSrs
phoba and tetahus that, whIie the first IS 9ener-
a gM l&gr to six , Weeks IN asvsopng the s
ton OF wound causing the disease. Generally,
tetanus takes piace three or four days after the
wound but, If there IS no symptom of it Tor six
the make his mind that he
Will not be attacked. With hydrophooa II is
seldom that 1t shows It's active Symptoms Ia
going On for some time unnoilced, because
that there are cases which may be- deveo 1ea ater
years, but they are unusual Indeed, have never
known OF one. But Il Is evplat nabIe on the theory
that. though the virus, or poison, was IN rhe blood
Of the person, no particular incident has happened
to draw II forth. An unusual heating OF the blood
q scratch or any occurrence OF the KIND, might
then bring 1t forth into activity Just as IN syphilis
when oten q mere cold will bring into being
something that was never suspected before.
be OF opinion that hydrophobla Is not likely to be
any more prevalent IN hot weather than In cold.
WHAT is your opinion concerning this2
DR.. EXTRAORDINARILY opinion on this point is
that trough hydrophobia may be no more catching
to produce rabies in the dog-at all events, more
SO than cold weather. The sun beating down on
dogs head may derange him and so alter the tenn
perature OF his blood as to cause such
REVOLUTION OF THE SYSTEM
that madness IS the result. ! knew case OF
dog which was lied up In spot where the hot sun
beat down upon him and lett there unintennon-
ally. He became mad. Mr.. Bergh seems to insist
selves Included) becomes heated, hydrophobia
s more likely fS 9Gcu than 10 any other
Of the blood might Be Cause oT
rabias 1t is equally true that the sumner heat
succeeding sue, thus period Of danger may be nkely to
that think summer the most probable season for
hydrophobia. hope you understand that rablas
called hydrophobia IN the man, SIMPLY from the
supposed objection to water. Yet it is certain
that may persons are bitten BY dogs which suffer
from rabies and never become hydrophODic. But
this 10 owing to accidents. Some systems repel
the disease, and then again q person may be
the virus. In each OF the four cases I have
known the bite was on the n ked Sesh. No
doubt the unfortunate Francis Butler. VINO was
hundreds OF times, and possibly often by rabid
dogs and yet he was never attacked with HYDRO
phobia. And yet at last ne received the fatal bite.
This singular man Rad manv theories concerning
hydrophobia and yet he was victim OF it himself
REPORTER-Do Won believe the popular fear or /
hydrophooia justfes the measures that have been
taken to secure dogs and put them to deatni
DR.. CAKNocHAN-I certainly do not. Itseems in
human and cruel to put all these animals to death,
and especially in the sngularly Ineffective way. |
which has been adopted the dogs In some instances
coming 70 HE after the operation. 1t seems to me
that if there is let 10 be necessity for anything
oil this kind let there be some kind OF
A QUARANTINE FOR DOGS
as there Is for humans, where the dogs may be
kept during the hot weather and until the popular
1ear OF hydrophooa is alayed. The TACT that Of
all the dogs captured and killed al the pound not
one has been rabld ls the best argument against
tins stup system. Much as know OF hydropho-
bla the present manner OF capturing aud killing
dogs 's very poor one, looked at from any point
OF view TO be sure, the death OF Butler is bad
thing Tor the dogs but when you consider the
much greater risks he ran than anybody else there
Is really nothing surprising IN It, Quite other wise,
In fact. '
HERALD reporter called later upon DR.. Parker.
In Twelfth street, to ascertain his views; but the
TACT OF his being in the country last evening made
this impossible.
Dog Fancier's Story.
John Peach. of No. 200 Waabout street, VIII.
Harrisburg, Is dog iancier and to reporter OF the
HERALD, yesterday, ne sad:-T am a dog fancier.
] nave been bitten by rabd dogs and II q dog
bites me that think Is In that condition suck
out the poisoned blood or GER n fr,end IN IN an