Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-04-18

tree had on his ranch
ON Mentiroso creek, in Texas, very valua-
bic pointer dog. One day he noticed that
the dog was acting strangely. Securing the
ooS by stout chain to young tree, he
waited to see what would come of it. In
leSs than two hours the dog was raving
mad He flew at the young tree and bit it
furiously in dozen places. The dog soon
died in great agony. In about three weeks,
the tree went raving mad. Its limbs waved
and thrashed about, all the bark fell Oft. and
like the dog the tree, also, persisted with
frightful commissions
To certain extent, hydrophobia can be
brought about by the exercise of too vivid
imagination. Almost all who have ar
rived at the age of maturity have, in the
days of our sunny childhood, while gather
ing fruit or watermelons, been partallen
of more or less by the farmers honest watch
dog, and yet we still live, for in those days
hydrophoNia was not heard of much.
Nevertheless, people do die of hydropho-
bia, hence we should consider what rene
dies to apply in case any of us are bitten,
and the public is not sufficiently interested
TO subscribe money to send the sufferer to
Mons. Pasteur at Paris. That is the case
with great many people in this country.
One new cure starts out with twelve
stalks of garlic. Heaven knows we have no
sympathy with tho hydrophobic microbc,
but this garlic treatment does seem to be a
little too severe. There is such thing as
being too rough even on hydrophobia.
really excellent suggestion comes from
Southern editor. He writes: In "these
days OF hydrophobia it is well to remember
that no man VINO has paid for his newspa-
pers in advance was ever known to be bit
ten by mad dog" This is very simple
remedy. 1t could do no harm to try it.
Lead has been suggested as an unfailing
remedy. All persons, to whom trip to
Franco is inconvcnient, should keep on
hand this simple prescription:
Cold lead, one-half ounce.
Directions.-Apply externally to dogs
head.
Whenever there is any doubt about a
dogs sanity half an ounce of lead is worth
pound of cure. Killing the dog before he
bites you is undoubtedly the very best cure
Hydrophobia is not incurable if he is vac
cinated as soon as he begins to show symp-
toms of the malady. The vaccination
should be done with a gun.
Some Of the proposed remedies are utter
ably impracticable. For instance, it has
been suggested in this connection that ali
dogs be provided with false teeth Con-
trast this visionary scheme with that of a
plain matter-of-fact Kansas woman, who
turned wash tub over a dog that was
foamlng like Concy Island glass of beer
and sat on the tub until a man came with
what Bill Nye calls tone of Smith & Yves
sons works on how to ventilate the human
frame"
Mons. Pasteur suggests that there should
be compulsory incubation of all the
dogs. This idea is perhaps good, but it is
suggestive of better one, if it should
prove effective. Would it not be good idea
to inoculate married men This idea
would certainly be very popular with the
wives of those who go mad so often while at
home. In this connection, it may not be
arniss to suggest some effective remedy for
dryphobia, disease that affects all drink
erS.
A strange feature Of hydrophobia Is that
man can get the disease from the bite of q
dog that seems to be free from it. This is
very singular, although. on general princi-
pies, it isn't much of a dog that can't make
man go mad by biting him.
But a still more singular incident oc-
CURED in Arkansaw. A mad dog caused a
prominent citizen intense anguish and vet
the animal never at any time came near
him. The rabid brute tore the cloak of
the wife of the Arka1saw man all to pieces.
and he had to buy her new one for TWEEN
ty=six dollars end thirty-five cents. AS he
actually needed the money for whisky and
cigars, he suffered intensely 1t is useless
to attempt to portray lis sufferings, as they
were simply indcscribable.
None of the great medical savans have
been able to give any satisfactory oxplana-
ton as to the real cause of hydrophobia in
dogs; but some light was thrown on the
subject during the scare at Newark, N. j.,
last year. 1t was discovered that the first
dog affected by the disease was IN tho yard
of house where a young girl left tho parlor
windows open while taking her first lesson
on the piano. ALEX. +. SWEET