The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-10-14

taken out of a dead dog so hard you
couldn't break them with a hatchet
Now how do you think you'd act with
one of them Jumps in your insides?
Il remember 4 year or two ago in
Jersey a man had Il pair of greyhounds
and he'd refused 81, 900 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 oook dropped her greasy
| dish-rag in his food by accident, and
he bolted it down with the rest
'.Dr. Mott was here himself the other
day to buy some rabbits" continued
the dog merchant, brandishing his stick
at the noisy crew who We're trying to
interrupt the flow of eloquence, land l
asked him had he ever seen a mad dog
that didn't have something in his staw-
mick what had no right to be there?
Well, no, he said; he never had, now
that he came to think of it"
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 hy-
drophobia He asked me whether I'd
ever seen a man with hydrophobia, and
said if 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, Peteri" and he took up his
little blind Yorkshire terrier that was
running about the floor and opened his
mouth. Nov 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 canker mouth.
Some is born with it. Well, if a dog
bites you so as 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 bite from
a man whose teeth had tartar on them
you'd run a great deal bigger risk. DIR.
Mott said himself that he d rather a dog
would bite him than man; it wasn't
as dangerous.
Il knew a 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
| i'm, lin Sfa
chance for hvdrophobia. Well, the
man got as white us sheet and ten
days after they tell me he had to be
smothered in the hospital.
Nov, you can just say this in the pa
per-" as the dog-dealrr finished his lect
ure on hydrophobia, that what will cure
mad dogs Or prevent 'em from going
mad is to give them 4 handful of table
salt whenever they look sick and
droopy. Thatll 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 stuff in their stawmicks
that if they don't live in the country
and run all the time they 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 to kill it at once than
lose it out, as folks do, and have it
staring round wildly and rushing from
place to place, as Il lost frightened dog
will, so that everybody says mad dog
and chascs and stones it to death. It's
that what starts all these mad-dog scares
in the country, and you'd be astonished
TO know how many people turn theil
dogs out when one of them scares come:
along and the papers gets to crying out
about it.