The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-04-30
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Whnf q Veterinary Surgeon Says Of Blaua
Poisoning BY Animals.

DR.. huidekoper, in illustrating the wa,
IN Which diseases of animals are communi.
Gated, last week told of case that recently
came under his notice, in which a human
life came near being lost He was called
last week to attend valuable horse. Incl
dentally the groom showed him his RIGHT
hand, on the back of which was small and
singular-looking pustule. The doctor recoR
nized it as the beginning of fatal blood
poisoning from animal virus. The groom
was ordered not to touch the animal and his
life was in all probability saved by the
prompt injection of iodine around the afiict.
ed part DIR. Huidekoper, in seeking an ex
PLANTATION, saw new currycomb in tn,
Stable. The groom had used it that morn
ing. Forbidding its use, the doctor cut OF
piece of the leather strap across the back
INTO which the groom had slipped his hand.
taking 1t home he scraped of little of the
leather and gave it to two guinea pigs. Both
quickly died. After that it scarcely needed
the microscope to reveal that the COW which
furnished the piece of leather had been
afnieted with anthrax. This little piece Of
leather could by simple contact depopulate
dozen stables of both horses and grooms.
Do you see that little box ?" asked DR..
Huidekoper, in the course of conversation
on the general subject of animal virus, with
which the new school will have to deal.
There is enough dry powder in those
dozen small phials to kill all the horses and
cattle III Philadelphia county. A speck o;
this dry dust of the virus Of the black tumo,
OF cattle, which I got in Germany, will.
when introduced by the lancet, kill tn,
strongest animal in the country, and yet the
virus is six years DID,"
" Vaccine virus is never so deadly as that
is t?n
No, but it is often bad enough. We in
tend as soon as possible to start vaccine
establishment in connection with the school
In my practice at the Children's Hospital J
have been convinced that very little of tn,
virus used in this country is free from sep
tic diseases. In Holland and Belgium.
where all the virus is furnished by the gov
eminent, there are no swollen arms or other
disagreeable effects attending vaccination
"Outside of bad vaccine virus human
beings suffer many evils from diseases of
animals. am perfectly satisfied that con-
sumption often results from the introduc
tion into the human system of the tuber
culosis of animals, principally in milk
Most of the ring-worm in children comes
from handling cats. The cat gets II from
the rat, of which it is the parasite, resemb-
ling in form the most familiar human par
asite. believe hydrophobia to be para
sitic disease. 1t effects only the nerve sub
stances. II is not found in the blood and
only little in the saliv. The entire
blood of mad dog has beer substituted b,
means of tubes for the blooo OF healthy
dog, without any perceptiblo effect, but u
speck of the nerve substance proved fatai.
Dogs so affected are more frequently fawn.
ing and gentle than vicious. There is only
one way to tell whether AN animal or human
being has hydrophoeia. Some animal must
be inoculated with tho nerve substance. If
II is hydrophobia the inocuisted animal will
die. Phi.a0elpIta Taxes