Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-11-13
contaminated months before. When


phObia is not spontaneous growth Il
is easy to see that the disease can b,
exterminated in large cities by publ,
law. provided preventive measures arr
vigorously applied. This is the case ii
Berlin. where a single case has no
been known for three years"
Here follow some remarks upon tn,
inetiiciency of the dog laws in Paris
These laws require q dog 10 carry ;
collar with the name and residence ot
! the dogs owner. The articles of Ia,
law themselves are excellent, bul in St
large city "a Paris can not be rgor
Ously enforced in some quarters. LAS,
year, the writer goes ON 10 say, a
was sent TO study the subject of hydro
phobia at Constantinople. and | was
enabled tn speak from experience Of
| what went on among the dogs there.
Rabies exists at STEAMBOAT. but only af
fects the dogs brought there by
| strangers. These animals Succumt
only to madness when it has been con.
trscted several months before in their
native country. without transmitting
! the disease 10 the thousands of dogs
which live in freedom In the streets OF
Constantinople, and which are the city :
| most faithful guardians. The reason
! for this strange fact is simple--there
are no vagrant dogs in ConstantinOplc.
Many Of my readers know Jerome $
picture. The Turkish Cemetery" in
which dogs, overcome by heat and
WEAKNESS, are seen sleeping under the
midday sun. Such As these are the
dogs Of ConstantinOple-isolated in
their quarters. one could almost say
their streets. living entirely upon public
charity and the Stops which are thrown
to them. Their fangs forbid the en-
trance of any animal into the districts
they inhabt. When the dog of any
stranger runs through the streets il can
only do SO at the end of leash, and
his owner would have trouble to pro-
tect him with his cane from the pack of
dogs that would follow. But il
the absolute freedom which the dog
thu. en- Joys nj Constantinopie makes
him The most unhappy OF animals. | do
not know of 4 ssdder sight than TO see
animals so intelligent in state of
emaciation. dying OF hunger. and
scarcely able 10 drag their feet. so
wounded are their legs from their con-
slant battles.
There are many things which have
rendered difficult the study Of hydro
phOb:a, the first of which is the long
time Of incubation of the disease, and
on the other hand the difficulty of dis
tinguishng it from other like affections.
Whether In man or animals, il is q very
long time after the incubation that
hydrophOba appears, and during this
inocrlafion not symptom, however
small, allows you 10 Judge of the pro-
greSS the disease has made Man and
beast as we'll enjoy perfect health dur
ing this time. II we are To trust old
fashioned ideas. this period of incuba-
ton might last for years. Indeed, it is
pretended that after FIVE. ten. or even
twenty years from the time of the bite
symptoms Of rabies have been noticed.
but such are untrue. 1t may be said i'm
general. in the dog as in man. that the
time OF incubation is between three
and four months. In the fifty cases of
human madness have observed hydro
phobia developed between the second
and third months; but there are excep-
lions to this rule. Only recently L
came across case of eighteen months
standing. but such cases are indeed
exceptional.
1.-The dog has two forms of hydro
phob;a; one is called madness and the
other dumb madness. In the first of
these the dog, having become restless
and morose, bits every object ut hand.
More often he takes to wandering, bit
ing the dogs he meets, and falling npon
children and even upon men who get
in his way. His bark is muffied-ihat.
indeed, is one Of the characteristic signs
-and once the bowling of mad dog
is heard it il never forgotten. Liter
ally speaking, hydrophobia-that is to
say, horror of liquids-dOes not ex-
ist in q mad dog, for he can eat and
drink as usual. but it is rather biting
the water than tapping 1t that he gets it
down his throat The love which a
dog has for his master will cause him
rarely to bite the latter. Often at Al
fort ladies would bring in their car
riages and on their laps. and this with
showed them to be mad
dumb madness is characterized by
the fact that paralysis, affecting the
lower jaw. prohibits its use. but we
discover here the same changes of
voice and peculiar state OF the jaws.
which are a reddish violet color, and
from them a thick saliva flows abund-
antly."
Among some further remarks upon
the symptoms in mankind the writer
tells OF the influence the Imagination
PLAYS upon persons who have been
bitten. ii know of no more curious
case he says, than that which
happened 10 NJ. Decroix, m old veteri-
nary surgeon in the army. and to-day
president Of the Society for the Pre-
vention Of Cruelty to Animals Deeroix
had maintained that digestion and cook
ing destroy all the poisonous proper
ties of suspected flesh. 10 practice
what he preached he ate. and caused
others 10 eat, the meat of animals
affected by various diseases. lie even
partook of the flesh of animals affected
by various diseases. He even partook
of the flesh Of animals which had
hydrophobia; nevertheless, after one Of
these meals, having read that German
experimenter had produced hydro
phohia by feeding hogs with the flesh of
rabid animals, he was overcome with 4
fit Of strangulation, and not only
thought he experienced. but did ex-
perienee for two DAYS all the symptoms
of hydrophobia. Then. when he Was