The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-23
IIYDR0PH0BIA AND RABIES.
WHAT SIR THOMis WATSON ADVISES
n a MAD poo mas BITTEN YOU.
The Disease Not Imaginary Onc-Ita Ma
ture aud symptoms The Percentage of
Dcaths-The Period OF PcriI-Suggestions.

Iu'I' Wpulu DO no nNNTOpnDDlH WPrc tnCrp
no rabics; there can be no rabies unlcss IL b.
communicated 10y u rabd AnimHl; hut they are
not identical diseasos. To use the concrete
form Of speech. rabies ia the dog is quite differ
ent and d stint from hyurOphobia IN the man.
The torn hylrophobiq Is often erroneousy ap-
piled To both discusses. but the rabd dog is never
hylruphubic.
Thcre has been en- astonishing incrcnse Of
century. Mr. Crsar Hawkins writing in 1874
| shys mat only two casos OF Tho disease had been
admitted into st. Georges Hospital sine he
| nrst knew IL twenty-five yenrs earlier. Now.
| mention OF such cases is constantly being made
in the newspapers. since the beginning Of the
| present year no lCss than thirteen deaths from
| hydrophohia have been recorded within tho
limits of the London registration.
rnbios: hui hydrophobin does not ms / bDiicscj
eyer reprodpcd itself The first thing to be no.
bSsd b SSoa hydTophcSa that frequent as i
ne without witnessing the disease at all: Hence
thcrehas. strangely enough, sprung NJ in some
mlnls fancy that no such disease has ever
| happened.
Thavc myself seen four cascs OF that fearful
| malady and | feel sure that no one who Inns
| even once watched its actual symptoms could
iail To re- ognize it again. or could mistake any
after. What these truly remarkahlc symptoms
are shall Explain presently. II would. 4 W@rt.
sem sr,m lncrciible that So many Persons who
| Tered 50 precisely the same train of symptoms
and have at last died. from the mere force OF a
elusive against such belief * that the disease
mas befallen Infants ana Idiots, who had never
| hylr, phoola, and IN whom the imagination
could have had no share In producing their
| latal distcmper.
| HOW THE DIsrAsr SLOWS ITSELF.
The symptoms of hyirophobin. stated in
| reliability ana terror. spasmodic contratlon- Of
| tho muscles Of the throat. excited by various
external influences. and especially iy the sis4t
| or sound of liquids. and hy attempts 10 swal-
! lowthrm. and sometimes absolute inposSibility
| oi swallowing them; earnest attempts 90 do 40
| Notwithstanding. When fluids are offered to
! and pressed upon the patient. he will take me
v"ss' containing them into mis- hand. but draws
back his head 10 distance from II with a re-
| l'llhg, ana apparently Involuntary gesture;
| meanwhile. he makes u succession ~ hurried
gasping signs and sobs. precisely resembling
those which occur when ono wad's gradually
anu deeply into cold water. The sound Of water
poured from one vessel into another gusts Of
| mr. nnssing over his face. the sudden access of
| git. the waving OF mirror before his eyes.
| me crawlng of an insect over his -Sin-thesr
| are things which in n hydrophuhie Patient. suf-
flee to excite great agitation. and the peculiar
| strangling sensation about the fauc.s He goes
| on rapidly from bad To- worse. in most cases
| NOR" or less ~ mania or upl irum H. mixed up
| with the rriulbility. Illusions Of the senses II
sight and OF hearing are not uncommon. The
! sufferer Is very Earrulous and excited. In
som" eases, but not IN all, there is incontincnre
Of urine. Foam and sticky murus gather in
! his throat and mouth. and he makes great
Efforts W pullng II win his Ringers. and 10y
spiiting. blowing. and hawk ing, To get rid OF IL;
and the sounds he thus makes have been exag-
| gtrhtrd by Ignorance aud crcduliiy into the
foaming and barking of n dog. In tho same
| spirit the palsy of his lower limbs. which some
stand upright. hns been mis- Construed into
{, sire on his part 70 40 on all four- like dog.
/ Vomiting h "A 'fr,giaut -ynttnn The tulsn m
short limo bccon"s lrsaient and t'I an nj
| thu general strength declines with great rapidi-
! ". Death occasionally cusdrs within tw' MY
four hours after the 6esiunlng OF the specific
SYMPTOMS " ~ commonly ~ ALL it happens
postponed To- the nh day ani In XIII rrrr in.
stan - ii may not occur tlthe seventh. eighth.
| I'.urflv ll, ,oroVvsr,s i,,.,,f.,. -, 81, ,.i.
| lent and fr,,u,n, rxinr,t ~. .Is,,. i,t ,,
casoniy Il, symp;om. IN idr .,'''a' MARKED 11s 2
the nervous .rritnhHty dIsauiear-. til patient
+ ell. . i 'a1 drnt ana "Snycr-s wilh se
d'r ir' hoog M n.. - oa a, an an
| disuniri. Tra lat. Or. Latham L~l "A Lvirn
| fIN cNpe0tni T. hrir that tie rati.nt v,,s laad
+ li' D.. f.unl Linn hi H. ti, in +. H. III ',,'i,,
+ cabin pnl fr.. nom -,a-m a.. lad u-t ',ifnnk
% hrs. fu. ID ri " .,x. -ir'f,' 49, I'd p,
/ Mur- that stood ~. what a wa ierlu' eur. 90
chnnsr; but lc bad no pplsr; hf -kin wis a.
cold ~ marble. In half nm hour lie sank ha' Is
ana expired.
L. rur pt7.r-> ,,,v r,<,,,,9
a. ms siyos r'sprf nag To-. tNo df-'.. 49,
First rs uIan who has hn.n h'ti n Ivar,11
dog and In Who's ,.,,-e no. i,r.,.rt w. r,a-n,.e
huNr hfen taken. doomed man, naNrur-
sWer.i this an -tfon "a ta- negative uIreuiv
f.w upon 4. Whole who aie solution. hr.,r,e
thut hn knew an Instance I'm which. Il p per-
NJ itiru. only on Iri a victim - disease
In II 4wlltuu estimated tiu. uro,,Y rtIDn to h.I
in -. Bur | frlrthH-s computations are mu N
too low. In $50 20 lupl ~. m tn nrii,h Or
ho't ~ S'ulis took bis course within -mnu
circle and hit % persons before h. wis ktlieI.
a. rrr of tl.~ lail ~ hvll.uholia. Tho saliva
90, q rah.d wolf would -r.'n b. hir'.ivvlrul nj
and effective III. -. h.p~'s Nv n'wnvs' be-
love. At % mixed par. lI-n.' probably tine
iaia.iii 90 in"lr hlr,. rhe following statement
r-uios exclusively Z, the wof: In Drr.mhrr.
IVA. ~ persons wcrn bitten in thr n"ighhnr-
/ hood of Iruye.; Q of thnm died. o. ~ prr-pns
similarly bitten IN 1881. near Briyr. ~ died of
hydrophpNi In MAY. lS17 - persons wnr.
Bitten and II perish"l Four died Il IL thlt
were bitten nour Digou; and l. of ~
buHn near kOci lie. At Bar -sur-Orn.ni
II woro biitnn. Of whom u dicd within
two months. Here W. huVe ia ner- ms hifinn
r. ru ~, WOW nhn unions mem 10 few r
sid"iaby more thnn onr-haf. There is no
doubt however, that the majority of persons
who IRE bitten hv n mud dog - ape the disease.
TINS mny be partly owing To- an inherent iuhIti-
tnde i.r according IT, Their are some upon
whom the conaeion OF smallpox has no iniiu-
enre. This popularity exists nppnr, ntlv even
among dogs. There WIS one dog at Charrntnn
A mot al. 4 ~