The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-09-23
ABOUT HYDROPHOBIA.
A Dealer in Eogs Says the Disease is Not
Observation-Disclosures Die of Fright.

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| Observation-Disclosures Die of Fright.
Anyone riding in the Fourth avenue
| cars. saws the New York World, can
notice in passing through Broome street.
a few cages filled with chickens piled
together above q 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 a 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 sags 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 DR.. Mott, who is expert
:nenting with Pasteur's methods in this
| city, made a post mortem examination
| of the dog who bit the first child he in
oculated, he found a hard ball in its
stomach, which appeared to be CON-
| posed of the hempen fibers of a door
mat. This was so remarkable con
firmation of MIR. Young's statement that
he was induced by a reporter to tell
| about it.
"Yes, L saw that" said the dog g-dealer,
in reference to Motifs statement. And
| it's just like | said before When
! 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 a 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 q 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
! 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 tLey begin
chewing the door-mat or eating straw,
| an d it forms 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 hatchet.
Now how do you think you'd act With
one of them Jumps in your insidesp
| 81 remember a year or two ago in
Jersey 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 il
might burst through the window, and
! so shot it, and sent it warm to the doe
| 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 III 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, brandisbing his stick
at the noisy crew who We're 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 staw-
mick what had no right to be there?
We'll, no. he said; he never had, now
| that he came to think of it,
Says |: 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 hls dogs either,
and that showed pretty plain whether l
! believed there was such a 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 I'm not going to say that
folks can't get blood-poisoning from the
| bite of a dog, because | know they can.
Come here, Peter!" 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 teeth? Well, some
dogs has that and some hasn't; it's
what we call a foul or a 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 a bit of danger. For that
matter, if you was to have bite from
man whose teeth had tartar on them
you'd run a great deal bigger risk. DR..
Mott said himself that he'd rather dog
would bite him than a man; it wasn't
| as dangerous.
! 81 knew man whose dog bit him in
the lip. The place was healing up and
he hadn't thought anything of it till
about a week after, some fool said to
him: by Jove! I'd hate to have that
wound in my lip. You stand 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 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
| 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 a lost frightened dog
will, so that everybody says mad dog
and chases and stones it to death. It's
that what starts all these mad-dog scares