The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-07-09
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Many persons are sick merely from
the effect of imagination or habit, the
old woman for example, who, has been
bcd-ridden for years with her rheumat-
les. She was left alone one summer day
at the farmhouse. She saw a mad bull
tearing across the pasture in the direc-
toin of the house, and feeling that it was
neck or nothing" she bounced out of
bed in double-quick time, barred both
doors and never complained of rheuma-
tism afterwards.
Many cases are given in medical jour
nails of persons who have been bitten by
dogs and have afterwards taken to foam
ing Mt the mouth, shuddering at the
sight of water, and initiating adog's bark,
imagining that these are signs of hydro
phobia, and have actually died in con
yulsive agonies, the facts being that mad
dogs don't foam at the mouth, never
bark and can drink water like Il fish"
So far from running about in desPere-
ton as if a hundred thousand dilapidae-
ed tin-pans were tied to their eau
Dial prolongations, really mad dogs are
the quietest individuals in the world,
make no noise, seem to want TO be
alone, keep their mouths shut, the dis
tinctive symptoms of such madness be-
ing great restlessness, paving the face
and eating their own fresh reflections.
Mad dogs do not run after people, but
will SNAP at any one who comes in their
way, especially individuals of their "
kind; they seem to trot or run as if
looking at something straight ahead.
Infinite mischief is done in publishing
cases of persons becoming hydrophobic,
one, ten and rel twenty years after the
last remembered biting of a dog, the re-
porters of such tales not having taken
..;.- =. .--,;un ,f tInra Iol not haan n
later biting. Such monstrousabsurdities
are well calculated to keep nervous per-
sons who have once been bitten by a
dog in n state of wearying u~neasiness all
their life long afterward. If a person
has been bitten by a dog supposed to be
mad, the animal should be put in a
quiet room and let alone, only slipping
in food and drink from time to time If
| really mad, death will take place in a
day or two, and if not mad a complete
recovery will ensue. Only N bite in
twenty of dogs supposed to be mad is
fatal.
A dog in New Jersey last year bit Q
woman and ran under the sofa her hus.
band dragged him out by the tail, held
him up and whipped him; i'll this posi-.
ton the dog got a chance of biting his
master, who died in a few days of hydro.
phobia this shows that the state of mind
of the animal gives virulence to the bite,
A mother nursing her infant child was
thrown into n sudden tempestuous rage
as soon as it was over, she finished nurs-
ing the child, which was at once taken
with commissions; the state of mind of
the mother imparting virulence to the
milk of her bosom. A lady saw at q
distance n window sash falling immedi-
ately on the ends of the fingers of her
little grandchild the child's fingers were
crushed those of the grandmother were
similarly affected. This is given on the
testimony of the distinguished DR.
Brown Sequard. The lesson is, seek Ia
control the imagination and TO guard
against mental excitement by habituat.
ing the mind TO take n calm, measured
and deliberate view of all the circum,
stances of life. Intelligent people should
bear these things in mind. The great.
est th~roar-swubber of the age began to
think he had sore throat too, and swab-
bed himself every day when lie died,
his throat was found to he as well as
anybody'S.
The best WAY TO escape imaginative
diseases is TO be just as busy as you can
in doing something useful, profitable
or good; to have the mind fully employ
| ed in some ~commendable object; it is
thus that the washerwoman is oftener
happier than the wife of the million
aire, the hod-carrier than he who has
retired from business"