The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-11-12

is not based on any scientific fact. In
Algiers, where dogs live in freedom,
the disease exists, and will show why
the dogs of Constantinople have little
or no madness. That which is certain,
at all events, is that in countries where
madness does not exist it has never APP
peared spontaneously. When it has
been produced ii was by animals COM
ing from distance. which have been
contaminated months before. When
once the fact is established that hydro
phobia is not spontaneous growth it
is easy to see that the disease can be
exterminated in large cities by public
law. provided preventive measures are
vigorously applied. This is the case in
Berlin, where single case has not
been known for three years"
Here follow some remarks upon the
inefficiency of the dog laws in Paris.
These laws require dog to carry
collar with the name and residence Of
the dogs owner. The articles of the
law themselves are excellent, out in so
large city as Paris can not be rigor-
ously enforced in some quarters. "Last
year" the writer goes on to say. Il
was sent to study the subject of hydro
phobia at Constantinople, and was
enabled to speak from experience of
what went on among the dogs there.
Rabies exists at Stamboul, but only af-
fects the dogs brought there by
strangers. These animals succumb
only to madness when it has been con-
tracted several months before in their
native country, without transmitting
the disease to the thousands of dogs
which live in freedom in the streets of
Constantinople, and which are the city's
most faithful guardians. The reason
for this strange fact is simple-there
are no yagrant dogs in Constantinople.
Many of my readers know Jerome's
picture, '.Tbe Turkish Cemetery" in
which dogs overcome by heat and
WEAKNESS, are seen sleeping under the
midday sun. Such as these are the
dogs of Observation-Disclosures in
their quarters, one could almost saw
their streets, living entirely upon public
charity and the slops which are thrown
to them. Their fangs forbid the en-
trance of any animal into the districts
they inhabit. When the dog of any
stranger runs through the streets it 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 if
the absolute freedom which the dog
thus enjoys at Constantlnople makes
him the most unhappy of animals, / do
not know of sadder sight than to see
animals so intelligent in a state of
emaciation, dying of hunger, and
scarcely able to 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
phobia, the first of which is the long
time of incubation of the disease, and
on the other hand the difficulty of dis
tingushing it from other like affections
Whether in man or animals, it is very
long time after the incubation that
hydrophobia appears, and during this
inoculation not symptom. however
small. allows you to judge of the pro-
gress the disease has made. Man and
beast as well enjoy perfect health dur
ing this time. If 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 in
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-
tions to this rule. Only recently !
came across case of eighteen months
standing. but such cases arc indeed
exceptional.
! The dog has two forms of hydro
phobia; one is called madness and the
other dumb madness. In the first OF
these the dog, having become restless
and morose, bits every object at hand.
More often he takes to wandering, bit
ing the dogs he meets. and falling upon
children and even upon men who get
in his way. His bark is mutf1ed-that,
indeed, is one of the characteristic signs
and once the bowling of mad dog
is heard it is never forgotten. Liter.
I ally speaking, hydrophobia-that is to
| say, horror of liquids-does not ex.
list in mad dog, for he can eat and
drink as usual. but it is rather biting
the water than tapping 1t that he gets il
down his throat The love which q
rarely to bite the latter. Often at AL
fort ladies would bring in their car.
riages and on their laps, and this with.
out danger, small dogs whose bark
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 u peculiar state of the jaws
which are reddish violet color, anc
from them thick saliva flows abuhd.
antly."
Among some further remarks upor
the symptoms in mankind the writer
tells of the influence the Imagination
plays upon persons who have beer
bitten. II know of no more curiou.
case" he says, than that whicl
happened to NJ. Decroix, an old veteri
nary surgeon in the army, and to-day
president of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals. Decroi:
had maintained that digest on and cook
ing destroy all the poisonous proper
ties of suspected flesh. To practic
what he preached he ate. and cause,
others to eat, the meat of animal
affected by various diseases. He eve
partook Of the flesh of animals affecte,
by various diseases. He even partoo
of the flesh Of animals which ha
hydrophobia; nevertheless. after one {
these meals. having read that Germa
experimenter had produced hydro
phobia by feeding hogs with the flesh {
rabid animals, ne was overcome with
fit of strangulation. and not onl
: thought he experienced, but did e,
} perience for two DAYS all the symptom
; Of hydrophobia. Then, when he W,
told that the experiments of the Ge
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