Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-23
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many who applied to me for the treat
ment 1 soon found were

many who applied to me for the treat
ment l soon found were
NOT PROPER SUBJECTS FORT.
discovered beyond a doubt that the
animal by which they were bitten was
not rabid. How can the tears of such a
one be quieted? BY detailing the cir
cumstances of their cases to them and
assuring them of the impossibility Of
rabies supervening. A very slight treat
ment of their wounds, after this, readily
satisfies them. Many cases of rabies are
reported cured, however, which were
not rabies at all but pseudo hydrophobia
the result Of an overwrought imagina-
ton. So great is the power of mind over
body that death in certain cases results
from this imaginary al ment. 1t is not
easy to diagnose NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
When death ensues rabies or pseudo
hydrophobia may be arrived at as the
cause by inoculating dogs or rabbits
with germs from the brain and spinal
cord Of the deceased. II they become
rabid, the disease was rabies in the man.
And vice versa if they do not, the imagi-
nation mas claimed another victim. And
an interesting symptom of pseudo hydro
phObIa is the fact that the sufferer shows
much more dread of swallowing
than does the actually rabii patient.
Why did l cease the practice Of the Pas
teur treatment for rabies. Because l
found my time engrossed by patients uu-
able to pay for my services. / could not
bear to turn them away and had either
to give up the whole subject or abandon
my private practice. Naturally I quit
the Pssteur treatment. l trust that DR..
Gibier may not have to give it up. 1
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stitute on paying basis and only hope
they may. Such an institute, free for
all no may have been bitten by ami
mails, should be established either by the
state, the city, or Individual subsorip-
TONS
WHAT DR.. GIBIER HAS DONE.
In DR.. Paul Gibier's laboratory are
many test tubes in which microbes are
hatching and developing. To the uuini-
tiated eye the yellow fever microbe, the
microbe OF smallpox and the microbe OF
hydrophobia look alike. But the photo
graphs there exhibited Of the brain of
healthy and a rabd man show at
glance the deadly foreign growth whose
origin is still 30 mysterious.
1.-THE great necessity says DR..
Gibier, els to find out as soon as pos
sibie IL the animal that inflicted the bite
Is rabid. This may be inferred from evil
dence that the animal showed unmis-
taxable signs of hydrophobis or it may
be demonstrated By inspecting portions
of its brain under the microscope. This
once determined the treatment is per-
fectly clear. Most Of my patients have
been unable to pay for any thing, and
with them l am forced to be specially
particular, for 1 insist on the patients
surroundings beng sorupuIously clean,
especially in the matter OF bed linen.
And IS in order to insure the fulfiilment
of these essential conditions, prefer, II
possible, to have the patient remain here
in the institute. have more than
once, so crowded was the house, been
Obliged to give up my own bed.''
OF imaginary hydrophobia, or pseudo
hydrophobia, a human scourge devel-
oped under recent conditions OF exis-
tence, DR.. Gibier says: "It nevers ex-
lists unless the mind of the patient be
somewhat unbalanced, the deplorable
result OF the alarm caused by the ami
malls attack or by fears Of what the
bite may produce. The sufferer from
Observation-Disclosures will generally man.
ifest some proclivity or popularity OF the
animal which brought on the attack.
Since the introduction of the Pasteur
method into the United States. the ex.