Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
MUST EAT DOG.
The Latest Cure for Con-
sumption.
A Gypsy Who Knows All
About 1t.
He Tells About His Own Trial of
the Remedy.
Ready to Prepare the Food Himself.
Dog Tastes Like Game and
Smells just Like
Turkey.

The dog meat diet for consumptives is
the latest therapeutic curiosity, and 1t
will be strange, considering the ways OF
the world, if the reports Of the remark
able efficacy of this treatment in the
cases of the Columbus, o., girl and the
Anderson, Ind, boy do not somewhat
increase the canine mortality OF the
country, says the San Francisco
Chronicle.
1t is not known that anybody out
here has begun eating mans best friend
to stop that cough, but one thing is
known, and that is, that San Francisco
has a great advantage as far as advant-
ages and opportunities go. We have
here a man who knows all about eating
dogs for consumption, and just how the
dogs ought to be cooked and the eatin g
done.
This expert was discovered yesterday
by Chronicle reporter in the person of
Johann Gingary. He is a young man
of about 80 years of age, and yesterday
he looked a trihe the worse for the
worlds bufetings. He said that he was
a Bohemian gypsy, and nine years ago
deserted from the Austrian army. He
served two or three years in the army
on this coast.
"Now, you seldom see gypsy die OF
consumption" said he yesterday i'll
broken English. They eat dogs and
cats. but they know how to prepare
them. Ii dogs flesh is not prepared
properly it may make person sick. 1t
is like tiger. III you don't know how
to prepare it and eat ii for a long time
you will become vicious just like tiger.
L would ask anybody who wants to try
this cure to give me trial. l can pre-
pare the flesh OF dog so that it is pal
atable. The gypsies use dog meat for
consumption and asthma, and they have
got to know what parts to eat. They
eat the hind and front legs and three
other parts, but they are part of my
business secret. There is one piece
especially which should be eaten in the
morning for breakfast"
Johann lost his job as waiter some
time ago, and it is but natural that he
should guard knowledge and skillt that
he hopes will be worth fat fees to him
when he builds up practice in the pro-
fession OF administering dog meat for
pulmonary complaints. In reply to
questions this romany rover who wants
to benefit suffering humanity, gave
some interesting information about the
fate of gypsy dogs.
ooh. yes; | have eaten dog meat
many time" he said in matter-of-
fact way which rather proved that
canine longevity in this country is
simply the result of prejudice. MY
uncle got the consumption once, but
my grandmother cured him in month
by giving him dog meat. [ have seen
others cured the same way, and when
ever dogs were cooked that way in our
camp | always ate some OF it just be-
cause / liked it. 1t tastes like wild
game. / can fix it so it tastes just like
somebody eat it in the Palace hotel.
Dog meat looks just like hare, and
when you roast it it spreads very nice
smell in the room, just like turkey.
Yes, that is true. The gypsies cook it
by putting the legs and the other parts
they use on a spit over a campfire and
keep turning it until it is cooked. The
Bohemian and Hungarian gypsies eat
cat for food often. Once in Southern
Russia our camp ate cats three times a
week for two or three months, when
DG6l anu DOIh NCIS SCdINC. InCC CuIO
rheumatism sometimes by just tieirg
live cat on for day or two. The rheu
matism all goes into the cat, and when
it is taken off it can't walk. Cat meat
tastes a good deal like rabbit or dog. 1t
is reddish white, and when cooked it
looks like Young veal. Tender? Oh,
yes and so are dogs. You don't want
either younger than l year or older than
l year and 8 months. An old cat amt
got the taste, and it amt tender, and it
amt got the curative power any more"
1t was learned from the swarthy
young Gingary that any ordinary dog
will do for putting microbes of the lungs
to rout, Two classes are barred-the
shepherd dog and the Mexican hairless
dog. The last exception will be excep-
tionally gratifying. Hunting dogs are
preferable because OF the strong quail
ties which their flesh imparts, but, as
they are generally expensive, almost
any dog will do. A neighbours dog
would probably be found the best after
experience.
When the reporter got right down to
business with Mr.. Gingary the terms
for treatment were learned. He will
charge So a month for cooking one dog
and prescribing its use, or he will at
tend to a patient Tor three months for
$50. This does not include the dog.
The patient must provide the dog at his
residence. As one dog will last for
week, according to Mr.. Gingary, this
can be easily done for few weeks. In
case OF longer course OF diet arrange
ments might be made at the pound. AS
DIR. Gingary has no range he will expect
the use OF the PATIENTS kitchen, and
this would be preferable to having a
gypsy camp fire in the backyard, owing
TO the curiosity it would arouse. The
doctor will guarantee that all the cura-
tive flesh shall be reserved for the
patient.
Sin case OF a young lady or really,
with anybody else," says Or. Gingary
lit would be better to have it prepared
secretly and let them think they are
eating wild game"
He is sincere about this and if any
body else is he would be pleased to hear
from them and begin his practice of
secrets handed down through genera
tions OF his strange people and learned |
by HIM from a gypsy queen.
A PINEAPPLE RANCH.
Va