The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-07-08

sells now on their way will nearly make up the
remainder, SO that freights are expected to rule
low throughout the season.
Hydrophobia Mania.
They used to put down in the surgical
almanacs, at the period when in the
course of nature cherries should be ripe
and cherry trees loaded, "About this
time look for boys with broken arms"
Our city surgeons commonly have as
much practice in gunshot wounds after a
Fourth of July as falls to the share of
the army doctors after moderate battle;
and the warm weather always gives fair
share Of practice in the athletic exercise
of resuscitating half drowned humanity
Although death has, as POLITICALLY OBJ.
served, all seasons for his own, he adopts
different style for each, and comes in
shapes appropriate to the time. 1t
would appear from late experience that
we are now to have our warm weather
scare of hydrophobia as regularly as We
used to have scare of cholera for the
same season. Hydrophobia VIC may
have and do have, and it is not pei
ceptible how we can avoid an &C.
casional case, until society Al
large makes war on dogs and extermln-
ates the species; and then cats and foxes
and wolves will remain to do what they
may as substitutes for the friend of man.
And so long as there is hydrophobia it
will have the spurious and in certain as
poets most ridiculous double hydropho-
bic mania, the delusion in which men
| frighten themselves to death with the
fancy that they have been bitten by
rabid animals, case Of which has al.
| ready come this summer rs several came
last summer. That there is disease in
these cases is probable enough, but not
hydrophobia. There is evidently disor.
dcrcd brain, tending to mania in all
probability, and the character of the
mania is determined by . bite received
which would be otherwise harmless, and
the apprehensions in regard to it, upon
which the victim broods day and night
People should not permit themselves tc
accept on any terms notion so contrary
to ages Of experience as that hydropho
bia can be given by the bite of dog not
evidently rabid.
THE CASE REFERRED TO.
The death from hydrophobia which &C
CURED in Brooklyn last week is in som,
respects noteworthy. The victim was |
large, robust man, Of temperate habits
The dog that bit him showed no symp
toms Of disease, and is still alive, appar
emily in perfect health. The wound va
inflicted accidentally, when the man ant
dog were at play; it healed kindly, ant
no marks were left. The patient, how
ever. continued anxious and morbid. II
consulted physician, and Was assure
that there WAS no danger. Still b
lived in constant dread Of hydro
phobia, passing sleepless nights
and often suljecting himsel
to various tests in fear Of discoverin
traces Of disease. Finally, on the 1lth Z
June, eight weeks after the bite, th
first symptoms Of hydrophobia wer
manifested. Spasms supervened and II
. . patient died in agony. The case IS anon
: alous, but not without parallel. in,
about year ago one Mccormick died
New York city under much the SAN
circumstances. All that seems to be q
s tablished in regard to hydrophobia do
/ not conflict With the Developments just n
: ticed. The prime condition Of the di
+ ease is, that the animal communicate
t th, virus should be excited, which b
D been the case With al healthy dogs Who
e bites have proved fatal.