New-York tribune., 1874-07-06
HYDROPHOBIA.

DIR. HANMoND's INVESTIGATIONS TO DE DISCUSSED
BY THE NEUROLOGICAL sOCIETY-ADDTrIONAL AL
| INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT RABID DOGS.
The members of the Neurological Society,
including many OF the most distinguished physicians
and scientists this city, have been busy for the past
preparing for the discussion upon the subject
OF hydrophoba which to be the topic at the Import
ant meeting this evening The death of Mccormick from
| the true disease, and that Of Entwistle from q
stimulation Of hydrophobia have brought before the
medical profession and scientific Investigators phases Of
disease In direct comparison and furnish an opportunity
to arrive conclusions than ever before,
DR.. Frank H. Hamilton has spent great deal OF time
| in investigating the circumstances connected with
McCOrmiek's He is convinced, as are
also Drs. Hammond and Cross, that Mr..
Mason's brindle dog, which IA kept
at No. 3O5 East Forty-nInthst. Is beyond question
the dog that bit Mccormick. as has been related at
length In THE TRIBUNE Dr. Hadden does not feel so
Of this He says that Mccormick told him that be
been bitten by bakers black poodle that the
dog had been sent 70 the pound aud destroyed. The
OF this dog been carefully searched for, but
cannot be found, nor any such dog as
Mccormick described ~ Dr.. Hadfen be- ascertained
to have lived the nega0Orhood. The accounts agree
nearly TO the time previous toihis death upon
which Mccormick was bitten. SO that even II he was
bitten the black poodle and not the brinde bull ter
two weeks and more after he had bitten Mccormick tor
the pound not in operation until then The fact
therefore that dog lived for two weeks after biting
Mccormick shows Just as cOncusvely that he was not
ra Did at There record either OF
rbid dog Of any description having been received IN
the pound
The son of Mr. Misoa. the milkman who owns the
brinde dog. called upon DR.. Hammond and told him
that he wanted 10 clear the character OF his dog He
said that his dog did not bite Mccormick but acknOwl
edged he did bite another about the last week
in May last He added that Kelly who says that he saw
the dog bite Mccormick, really saw him bite
another mau When he the dog bite the
other man Kelly went 10 Mr.. Mason and told
him that there would DO trouble. Mr. Mason
gave Kelly dollar and two drinks of brandy To say
nothing about what he had This three weeks
AT least before McCOrnics death. The dog sitting
in the doorway and the man came by drunk, and the
dog bit him in the leg Mr. Mason aud his wife saw this
This story OF Mr. Mason's son. DR.. Hammond said, did
not shake either his belief that Of Dr. Cross that 1t
was the brndle dog that bit Mccormick
Dr Hammond said that he had received a great deal
of new and interesting information about cases OF ny
drophobia which had been brought out by the inyest
CATION in the Mccormick The story OF the dog
that bit Ada Cllre (Mrs. NOyes), added Dr. Hammond
has many facts in 1t that are OF the greatest
imnortance In this investi CATION. This animal was
\ trick dog and had been accustomed to perform
IN public. After he became rabid he bit and snapped
at everything about him, AMI tried TO tear away the
chain with which he was secured. But IN the midst Of
his most intense excitement and most agonizIng par
oxvsms the dog would obey his while standing
near with his whip, and 20 through all hs rleAs'
The dog was lust as after rats, and would XIII as
many as when in perfect health. While rabid TINS
dog bit two men, Harry Jennings, the dog fanoier ana
his foreman. Ada Clare bitten two days DeiOre e
dog died Mr. Jennings went 20 the house OF the owner
of the dog two days before the dog died lie was oteh
bv the dog there He then carried the dog to his place
~ bnsness atNo 39l Broomest In his arms. While hr'
J.nnugs was giving dog dose Of medicine his fore
man. who was holding him, was bitten. Both OF IheS"
man are 10 be at the meeting tonight Mr.. jennings
thus describes what he did after the dogs DEATH lie
said ct cut the dog open and examined niun' MS
lungs very large. but his iuesnes were All riS
This dogs actions we're dlHerehb LAO'n '"V70 'A 1'
other dog I ever saw"
Dr Hammond received letter from Mr. Johnson oi
r. Johnson IL Co., commission merchants. In when ne
saws that he had large Newfoundland dog given 10 nun
many wears ago His dog bit one OF his brothers h"e
hovs and the dog was afterwards killed as mad dos'
Anon, tUelye years afterwards the boy dled
with what the physicians pronounced 10 oe
true hydrophobis. Careful inquiry was mauo'
h II could not be learned that the boy had ever been
btten by any other dog. This, said DR. Hainmonu.
the longest time that has been known 70 Ha0 t rebd
dog and the appearance OF the disease Inc ~ ~5nolee'
time in case seen by he @ sn ri the bite OF
me dog ana the appearance of hyd!ophoDia III the
patient. -. -, ham ot,ai,ed bv the distin-
ousbed physicians who have been inYestlgatlhR nyuI
nhobia are TO be fully gwen at the meeting TINS evenR
The following notice has been sent out Dy III nam
mond the President OF the society ,,, e.oi.,v
,he meeting OF the New-YOrk Neurological Society
rms evenpR hydrophobIa, with special reference "
cent cases 10 the means OF prevention and cure anu
a cere of dogs will subject for discussion Dts
Hadden Hammond, Frank HaDiltOn cross anu W Vele &c G
will participate IN the debate The meeting wiz VIZ sur
nlacs az O'Clock. at the College OF fN NslcanS aN ~
gcons, at FOurtn-aVe anu l"ehti -'niu'''