The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-14
NOT RABIES THAT
MAKES A DOG MAD,
But a Worm Under the Afflicted
Animals Tongue Does 1t,
And When 1t Is Removed There Is No Longer
Any Danger-A Dog Doctor Contradicts
Pasteur-How Dogs Get Luuy.

iHT CCORDING to the statements of
sEzzzsgg Stephen Mulvey, a dog doctor who
INV lives in New York, the famous Pas
teur is all wrong in his theories about rabies
and mad dogs, and about people who are
bitten by dogs said to be mad. lie holds
that dog bite does not produce madness,
but that people imagine that they will be-
come crazy and they get crazy. This is the
deduction from an interview had by Mar
garet Manton of the New York Herald with
the dog doctor named. After some talk OH
the subject of dogs and their illness, the
doctor said:
81 will show you what it is that makes
dogs snap and want to bite when people
say they're mad. They're not mad. I've
seen but one mad dog in twenty years. I'll
show him to you by and by, but want you
to see something else first" And going to
one of the wire cages he got little woolly
st. Bernard pup, put him between his
knees. and taking silk handkerchief he
pried open his jaw, seized his tongue and
turned it upside down.
WORM IN A DOCS MOUTH.
"Do YOU see that?" he said, pointing to
white line running lengthwise on the under
part of the tongue.
Yes" / answered
"Do you know what it is ?'
"a cord, presume" said l.
"Its nothing of the Sort" says Stephen.
"It's a live worm"
Perhaps | looked trihe incredulOus, for
Mr.. Mulvey continued in slightly ag-
grieved tone. Every well, Eli prove it to
you, and what you see with your eyes you'll
believe"
unlike the blade Of a pen-knife, he made
small incision. slipped the Instrument under
the worm and drew 1t out.
There it was. A worm, as sure as you
live, alive and squirming: 1t was about as
large around as a piece of common wrapping
Irvine and nearly an inch long, and as he
held it up Stephen triumphantly repeated:
STEPHENS TRIUMPH.
"What you see with your eyes you'll be-
ieve."
| tongue?" asked
"There is" Mr.. Mulvey replied, and he
| demonstrated to my complete satisfaction
that there was. He even got dead dog
| tongue and took the worm out OF that.
The little st. Bernard who had been oper-
ated upon did not seem 10 mind it in the
| least. but went skipping about, wagging
his tail, with the utmost content.
Having settled the point that there really
was in every dogs tongue live worm, the
next thing was TO prove the doctors posi-
tive statement that If that worm was taken
from the tongue a dog would never have
rabies, and II he should bite any one no
| serious results would follow.
THE DOCTORS THEORY.
He claims that it is the worm which be-
comes rabid, not the dog; that the time
when it becomes so is during hot weather,
and that Ii worries the dog to such an extent
that he snaps at everything.
But the poison which does the mischief
comes from the worm. And therefore, when
the worm is extracted there is no tendency tc
snap and no poison.
"There are very few mad dogs In the
world" said Mr.. Mulvey. 81 have handled
dogs all my life and never saw more than
three. have not seen one for twenty years
until yesterday, when one was brought here
He is really mad dog, and If you like III
bring him in here and show him to you"
A MAD DOG.
The idea did not strike me as an altogether
| pleasant one, but was there in the interes
of science. so consented.
An attendant opened door out into
yard and led in by chain beautiful Scotcl