Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-11-04
ARnur HYpRoPHOBIA.
A Dealer In Dogs says the Disease Is Not
Iacurable-Patlsnts DIE Of Fright.


together above cellar door, and sur
mounted by the remains OF what was
once a dog, who is there to signify to
the passing multitude that MIR. James
Young has more and fresher CANNES for
sale below.
That dog was once triumph Of the
taxidermist'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, but
he seems to remind 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 find when you'd
cut him open he'd something wrong in
his stawmick. something that oughtn't
to be there" said the dog-fancier didac-
tically. When DIR. Mott, who is expert
menting with Pasteur's methods in this
city, made post mortem examination
of the dog who bit the first child he in
oculated, he found hard ball in its
stomach, which appeared to be COM
posed of the hempcn tibers of door
mat. This was so remarkable Il con-
firmation of Mr.. Young's statement that
he was induced by reporter to tell
about it.
"Yes, I Isaw that" said the dog-dealer.
in reference to Motifs statement. "And
| it's Just. like l said before. When q
dogs what folks calls mad, you'll al
ways find ball like that in his staw-
mick. Sometimes it's hair, sometimes
it's wool, and sometimes it's the door
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 city
house, the moment you let him out
where there's grass you'll notice he will
eat lot of the coarsest grass he can
find, and then he goes little further
and throws it up. Now, that's his in
stinct He knows he needs medicine
because shut up like that he doesn't get
proper exercise, and most times not the
right food, either, so he knows he's got
to clear out his stawmick some way.
Dogs get great deal of their own hair
inside of them from biting it, and those
what's in the house breathes in 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,
an d it forms a lump that the juices in
the stawmick makes harder and harder.
Why, many's the time I've seen Jumps
taken out of a dead dog SO hard you
couldn't break them with Ratchet
Now how do you think you'd act with
one of them Jumps in your insides?
IL remember a year or two ago in
Jersey a man had pair of greyhounds
and he'd refused $1,000 for one of them.
Well, he telegraphed some doctors who
were interested in the matter, that the
dog had gone mad and was chained up
in his cellar. The owner was afraid it
might burst through the window, and
SO shot it, and sent it warm to the doc
tors for dissection. Well, now, inside
that dog they found a big rag. Grey
hounds have to be dieted to preserve
their shape, and one day when he was
famished the cook dropped her greasy
dish-rag in his food by accident, and
he bolted it down with the rest.
CDR. Mott was here himself the other
day to buy some rabbits" continued
the dog merchant, brandishing his stick
at the noisy crew who were trying to
interrupt the flow of eloquence, land l
asked him had he ever seen mad dog
that didn't have something in his staw-
mick what had no right to be there?
We'll, no. he said; he never had, now
that he came to think of il.
Says l: Doctor, there's lots of i'm
agination what helps to kill your pa
tients, and says he: You're quite
right, Young, there is And | told him
he was free to come down here any time
and inoculate me with virus from any
of his rabbits or from his dogs either,
and that showed pretty plain whether l
believed there was such thing as n.y.
drophobia. He asked me whether I'd
ever seen man with hydrophobia, and
said if l had I never would forget it.
''Well, now I'm not going to say that
folks can't get blood-poisoning from the
bite of dog, because l know they can.
Come here, Peterr' and he took up his
little blind Yorkshire terrier that was
running about the floor and opened his
mouth. "Now you see that black stuff
round the top Of his teethp Well, some
dogs has that and some hasn't; it's
what we call foul or a canker mouth.
Some is born with it. Well, if a dog
bites you so us that gets into the bite,
you're apt to have blood-poisoning un-
less you're careful with the wound, but
if it's properly washed and cauterized
there ant bit of danger. For that
matter, if you was to have a bite from
man whose teeth had tartar on them
you'd run q great deal bigger risk. DR..
Mott said himself that he I'd rather dog
would bite him than man; it wasn't
as dangerous.
II knew man whose dog bit him in
the lip. The place was healing up and
he hadn't thought anything of it till
about week after, some fool said to
him: by Jove! I'd hate to have that
wound in my lip. You stand a good
chance for hydrophobia.' Well, the
man got as white as sheet and ten
days after they tell me he had to be
smothered in the hospital.
"Now,you can just say this in the pa.
per-" as the dog-dealer finished his lect
ure on hydrophobia, 'that what will cure
mad dogs or prevent 'em from going
mad is to give them handful of table.
salt whenever they look sick and
droopy. That'll act as an emetic, and
its simple and every one has it handy.
and I'll guarantee no dog that has that
every month or two to clean his staw.
mick out is going to 90 mad. They col
lect so much stnif in their staWmicks