New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24

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? men, who, possessing the enar~v ~ III
+ longs to our blood, will coni.iI.s
keep orr country on the hiehess \:
, among the nations.
The Relation Between Hydrsph....
: DeIiiium Tremens.
History relates that Archimad..
nent Greek scientific person, onc1 ~
discovery while taking a bath. Ana ~.
much elated thereby that he rusbe1 ~
street without pausing to dress him.slsR
triumphantly remarked to the rer..te
ting police men OF the period that -!
it," using, of course. neat sentan.. !.
the Greek "delectus" to express ii.
ing. What it was that Archime6s.s
discovered has never been eatisfactc.ae
Gel tanned. He may have discovs,.7
uses of soap, or an infal,ible metho1 NJ
tinguishing between the hot and cols !
ter fancies of the bath tub. II il - !.
latter discovery which 30 great]v ~
him, he was entirely excusable fm ~
Testing extraordinary enthusiasm. ~.
have oily to regret that he did NOT 49,
his infallible method to writing. ~ q
prevent it from becoming one Of tSsf
arts which modern inventive ea,;,sI
failed to rediscOver.
| A Brooklyn physician has receutlv !.
discovery which puts the best ~
Archimedes into the shade; but, in ass
ance with the improved civilization Fl.
age, he has published his discovervH q
newspapers instead OF rushing ist..s
street, with or without clothes. and p
ing Eureka" If there has been ~
ease more exasperating to MEDAL
than another, that disease has been ~.
called rabies in the dog, and hydpslS
in the human patient. They could ~
why dogs went mad, or why the bifs .
mad dog would sometimes comnssi.
hydrophobia, and at other times vsriii
innocuous. They did not know ~ :
nature of the disease, and conaeou,.s
conld not treat it successfully. NV.E
ever, the Brooklyn physician alreaiys
terred to makes the important 49,.
ment that he has fully mastered Is n
| ject of bydrOphObia both in man and k-
| and knows all shout its origin. Aeesfs
to this auth )ri'y, rabies is identnl RI
delirium tremens, and hydrophobisi -.
| q legitimate result Of intemDeralee Il q
use of ardent spirits.
How this ingenious physician lesenalRs
q mad dog suffers from the came yiGind
blue monkeys and yellow snakes via
haunt the brain of the drunkafd NJ
not explain. He contents himself r.
making the assertion that the sympteans
rabies are identical with those Of dalIin
tremens, and that the bite of q drunkw1aI
feriDg from the latter disease win e
municate hydrophobia as surely a viIia
bite Of . rabid dog. OF course hehu
pared to answer the inevitable que
Where does the drunken dog - q
iquolH 1t is pleasant to note taat /
go doing he treats the dog with scrupah
fairne.s and great delicacy. He m
that intemperance among dogs b {
solutely unknown, but he assures % r.
whenever dog bites q drunkard q
depraved blood of the latter =
as poison on the unwary animal, 4
inevitably produces the exact counters
OF delirium tremens. 1t is thus seen 4
the dog is wholly free from any fault, Il
that he becomes mad not out of peryeFlit
but because he makes the very natm
error of supposing it to be his duty to b
drunkards. In like manner when the NJ
dog flies at innocent people he has no inM
ton OF ipjuring them. The object is to II
the snakes which his distempered imagn
ton sees coiled about their legs, and ton
them OF the swarms Of blue monkeys ii
rats with green tails which he perceiM
perched on their shoulders or clinging i
their skins. 1t is not the crazed thow
faithful dog whom We must blame, butt
wretched drunkard, who, not content VII
running himself, insists upon pcisont
needless dogs with pieces Of his own p
son, and thus sending them to diffuse INN
territorial hydrophobia among mankind.
There Is a certain FEASIBILITY in this ths
Dry which thus Identifies the disease of d
drunkard with that hitherto mysterioe
disease of which a dread of water is u
symptom. The theory -
completely exonerates the dog from anv d
wrong-dOing. and renders lii
more than ever an object of our Affects
md pity. The Brooklyn discoverer is all
utely certain that NO dog ever develops
Shat Is termed spontaneous rabies unie
10 had previously bitten drunkard. Al
hough 1t may be objected that this theoJ
ais to account for the existence of rabbi
.mobg wolves residing in forests vhaJ
lrunkards are quite unattainable for bitin
purposes, it may be accepted as a yind;e,
ION OF the dog from the unjust charpa ths
10 Will go mad if he is deprived of wate
r II there IL d failure to meet his views
my oter respect on he part of his m asta
Nav that We know the real ORIGIN d
ydrophooia, we can take proper meas ure
or Its suppression. 1t is en1irelV eyiaen
hat the old fashioned practice of KILN
.ogs IN mideu INNER, lest they should see
and straightway Weld Il
MADNESS, ls q futile as it is barbsroua. Tn
runkards, aad not the dogs, must be az
minated. The city authorities must a.
sDiish drunkard pound for the receptim
Iuose oan gerOus nulsances, and eith0
ppolnt salarled drunkard catchers or offal
reward OF fifty cents for every drunkard
elivered to ne pound keeper. Those thu
athered together should be kept for dsy
two. SO that persons who own pet
run kards that nave been captured BY en-.
,rprlslng boys may have the opportunity
redeemlng them upon payment of
nall fine. These who are not TINS r.
eemed will, OF ceurse, be drowned or put
oeatn IL some way that will meet with
le appreciation of humane dogs; while q
~ requiring every drunkard to weal
ieet-lron trousers. IL order to protect IN
airy dogs from incautiously biting him,
louiu be promptly passed and rigidly en-
fc.d.
The adoption Of these simple D eventative
: GAS ures would lot only stamp out ter
Ole disease, but it would rid US of the
YARNS OF drunkar;s who iufest the streets,
~ wonld render tardy but poetic Justice
the dogs. f.om time imlnemorlal We
sVe slaugatered tue faithful animals, not
r any fault OF their own, but because IN
lhclpled drunkards have permitted dogs
81 them. Now the dogs will have the
OF seeing the true criminals
ought to justice and punished precisely
the innocent have been. The drupkard
una Is the reparation which we owe to
9 memory Of the murders of the dog
'nnd. WHAT the drunkarls will consider
~ they owe to the great Brooklyn dig
vorer remains to be saen.-Nem Y0rk
mes.
Remarkable Engineering Feat.
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