Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-09-17
ABOUT HYDROPHOBIA.
A Dealer In Dogs Says the Dis
ease Is Not Incurable.
Hard Balls OF = Mysterious substancs
Frequently Found In Canine stomachs
what VIII Cure Mad Dogs or
Prevent Them from Going Mad.
IN. Y. Morld1

street, Few cages ulieQ Win CulCken8
piled together above n cellar door, and
surmounted by the remains Of what was
once dog, who Is there to signify to the
passing multitude that Mr.. James Young
has more and fresher CANNES for sale be-
low.
That dog was once a triumph Of the
tGxideTmist's art, and except that his
bark was out of order, no one would know
that he had obtained Nirvana; but wind
and weather have worked sad ravages,
and left him bald as an old kid glove. He
says in places, and his wan, glass eyes
bulge out too much, Tut he seems TO re-
mind.the world that his owner holds some
original views on the subject of dogs who
are called mad.
"There never was dog what was called
crazy but you'd fin1 when you'd cut him
open he'd something wrong in his staw.
mick, something that oughtn't to be
there" said the dog -fancier, didactically.
When DR.. Mott, who Is experimenting
with DR.. Pasteur's methods in this city,
made a post-mortem examination of the
dog who bit the first child he inoculated,
he found a hard ball in its stomach, which
appeared to be composed of the hempen
fibers OF door-mat. This was so remark
able a confirmation OF Mr.. Young's state
ment that he was induced by reporter TO
tell about IL.
"Yes, saw that, ," said the dog-dealer,
In reference to Motifs statement. "And
it's just like / said before. When a dogs
what folks call mad, you'll always find
ball like that in his stawmck. Sometimes
it's hair, sometimes ii's wool and some-
times it's the Goor mat, but the troubles
always the same. Here's the way it is:
A dog that's kept chained up in his kennel
or in n city house, the moment you let him
out where there's grass you'll notice he
will eat lot Of the coarsest grass he con
find, and then he goes a little further and
throws IL up. Now, that's his instinct.
He knows he needs m ,dicine, because shut
up like that ho doesn't get proper exercise,
and most times not the right food, eithe-,
so he knows he's cot to clear out his
stawmick in some way. Dogs got a great
deal Of their own hair inside Of them from
biting IL, and those what's in the house
breathes in a lot OF lint and dust Of the
carpets. Well, Of course, that don't digest,
and they begin chewing the door-mat or
eating straw, and IL forms n lump that the
Juices in the stGwmick makes harder and
harder. Why, many's the time I've seen
them Jumps taken out Of n dead dog sc
hard yoU couldn't bre k them with q
Ratchet. Now how do you think you'll
act with one Of them Jumps on your n.
sidesY
81 remember n year OF two ago in Jer.
sey a man had pair Of greyhounds anil
he'd refused one thousand six hundred
dollars for one Of them. Well, no tele-
graphed some doctors " no were interested
i'm the matter, that the dog had gone mad
aud was chained up in his cellar. The
owner was afraid IL might burst through
the window, and so shot IL, and sent il
warm 10 the doctors for dissection. Wei,
now, inside that dog they found big rag.
GreyhCunls have to he dieted to preserve
their shape, and one day when he was
famished the cook dropped hor greasy
dishrag in his food by accident, and he
bolted II down with the rest.
"Dr. Mott was here himself the other
day 10 buy some rabbits" continued the
dog merchant, brandishiny his stick at the
noisy crew who were trying to interrupt
the flow OF eloquence, "and I asked him
had he ever seen a mad dog that didn't
have something in his stawmick what had
no right to be therel 'Woll, no. he said;
'he never had, now that he came to think
ofi.'
"Says I: Doctor, there's lots Of lmagin-
ntion what helps to kill your patients, , and
says he: You're quite right, Young, there
u.s. And told him he was free to come
down here any time and inoculate me wi,
virus from any Of his rabbits or from his
dogs either, and that showed pretty plain
I nh 4 ~
rs hydrophobia. He asked me whether
I'D ever seen n man with hydrophobia a,
and said IL l had never would forget It..
well, now Pm not going to say that
folks can't get blood poisoning from the
bite Of dog, because l know they can.
| Come here, Peter" and he took up his lit
lie blind Yorkshire terrier that was run
ming about the floor and opened his mouth.
snow you see that black stuff round the
top OF his teethl Well, some dogs has
that and some hasn't; it's what we call a
| foul or a canker mouth. Some is born
with il. Well, il a dog bites you so as that
/ gets into the bite, you're apt to have
blood-poisoning unless you're careful with
the wound. but II it's properly washed and
/ and cauteIized there ant a lit of danger.
For that matter, IL you was to have q bite
| from a man whose teeth had tartar on them
you'd run a great deal bigger risk. DR..
Mott said himself that he'd rather n dog
would bite him than a man; 1t wasn't as
| dangerous.
IL knew q man whose dog bit him In the
lip. The place was healing up and he
hadn't thought anything of It ill about q
week after, some fool said TO him: BY
/ jove! I'D hate TO have that wound in nv
lip. You stand a good chance for hydro
phobia.' Well the man got as white as a
sheet and ten days after they tell me
he had to DO smothered in the hospital.
| Now, you can just say this in the pa =
| per-" said the dog dealer, finishing his
lecture on hydrophobia, "that what W III
cure mad dogs or prevent 'em from going
mad Is to give them a handful Of table,
salt whenever they look sick and droopy
Thotn act as an emetic, and It's simple
and every one has Il handy, and I'll gar
0ntee no dog that has that every month
or two to clean his stawmick out is going
TO go mad. fhey collect so much stuff in
their stawmicks that IL they don't live in
the country and run all the time thew
needs an emetic every two months or so.
And you might say, too" he concluded,
that when people wants to get rid Of a
dog it's kinder 10 kill Il at once than loose
Il out, as folks do, and have IL staring
round wildly and rushing from place 70
place, as lostfrightened dog will, so that
| every body says mad dog aud chases and
/ stones tt 10 death. It's that what starts
all these mad-dog scares in the country,
| anu you'd be astoniShed to know how
how many people turn their dogs out when
one OF them scares comes along and the