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a Doctor who says Il Is, ana Gives Ills
Reasons.

DOCTOR VINO says II lss huu wives HE
Reasons.
The recent ado created by the alleged dis
,overy of NJ. Pasteur of microscopic or
ganism in the saliva of patient who had
ba, whatever that may be, gives peculiar
point and interest to the just published ad-
dress of DR., G. w. Dulles of the University
of Pennsylvania, read before the College |
uf Physicians of Philadelphia. DIR. |
Dulles is very cautious is his asser-
i.,ns but the gst of his paper may be !
condensed into u few sentences. First, from
Il iull examination OF the literature OF the |
disease, ancient and modern, he has arrived |
at the conclusion that so-caled hydrophobia
IL not distinguished from other diseases OF
the nervous system by any specific symp- |
tom the dread of water being shared IN
common with hysteriform and tctanic
seizures of the scvercst type. Secondly,
1t is not distinguished by any specific
lesion, lis post mortem appearances being
sometimes identical with those of tetan-
c spasm, sometimes with those OF
Inflammation of the heart, and some
times with those of acute phosphoric acid
poisoning. Thirdly, from these data and
from cases thai have come under his own
ohsel walton, he concludes that there is no
such specific disease as bydrophoDla, derlV-
cd, as alleged from the bite of rabid animals,
and that the cases hitherto recorded as such
| have really been transferable to other cate
| gories.
| Standing well nigh alone in this view OF
the subject and yet correct IN his assertion
that hydrophobla possesses neither speclhc
| symptom nor speclhc lesion upon which
| 1 To fla itnc To hp az a
disease--thc PRONUNCIATION Oh stch d
theory by a medical authority 50
uniformly cautious aud exact, before
a body OF physicians SO conserve
tive ana venerable as the College OF PhySi-
cials OF Philadelphia, must be consiucreu IT,
II landmark in the literature OF TINS sttnnsg
mal0uy Ancient Gernan lraulliohs zen
weird lomauces OF the VIII wo'VeS Q, INC
Black FoIesl ana Tie businesses Oh ,he hatl|
Mountains in old times but the hTsl WIN
ten description OF me case occurs III 'h'
"otks OF flhy ('Natuial HISTORY bo"h
ANi%), III Which, with inc gravity o, Nus
s'iIu'"h, nc l'C"uh's Tue icse"u "a W; lllau
worn'-the you ""fm OF Ola GcrmaL
il lA-lolt' luls worm lthe Y'w VI
elias l,aI Wut,rs) was believed 10 hV'
AHA IeirouUoG us hitu ocnea'n Wv
,"uguc 81 me Dog, ana IL II was removes
.,,i,,,,I ,v'r oniur mad When a nersol
Gai hnen ti,,an nv , n,od dor This worn
y,''s adn mustered as a remedy. but TO insut
i'y t'icnrv Win crrat ceremony if was car
dad ,i,,c ,in,,'s r7,rnd ILn donre Of q liphte
hr..,,,, S,,i,1ll, irrantuIions heinz reneate
} 'ht h'uicH "''ehu"ht Wh,Ie tllc plePai d
,',r,,ntrd Nv r,t,rl HE nrn;n of a cock. O
hv oInlyit,' In tbr wound the or.lure @
= i'.,Srt tIr,Tllrd win ym,pnr and wound |
t,r
4, enrd sc This autiauc literary seems
..-, 1t.n a hundred Iears moo l"M,d
rJ Rn,orls . Inv DR.. Samuel Arrcl
: pnrl.t'y I,rdrn 1907 mad doc
! t,,1n Tuhliclv executed by Laulin
w., u,n IN, ,rn nj Inn mad and bitlu
i,',,onl NIUE. and if Iyus cons,d.t,d
10 .,,I,. eI,rIif, tn ks, ihc animal with the ha
s ,'r .h1,I his mock scarcely ten veal
,,irr ~ The do,r Of Da,dslcI,s ,'Repcrts" IL
, irarcu Mead u.cs these words Ia a pap,
tt IN nIdrI pLobia. The irtlucucc Vi Ii
'- ,,..,, ~, a, ,n c.c..i s | IN convinced {