The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-23

ing man with reddish hair, who is afraid
of nothing and nobody; certainly not Of
hydrophobia quacks.
why, certainly" he said with deci-
sion. THAT man down in Asbury Park
who was bitten by cat was scared to
death. He.neyer had hydrophobia. He
died Of nervous prostration brought on by
worry over an imaginary danger. His
friends were all plying him and hoping
he wouldn't die, and prophesying that he
would, and he was man Of a nervous
temperament. as educated people some
times are, and il simply killed him. / sup
pose he read up in the books about hydro
phobia and IL turned his head. That's all
there was about IT, Do you remember
what great howl there was about those
Newark boys who were bitten by mad
dog and were sent over to Pasteur to be
cured p"
why, of course; who doesnt?"
'Well, it's quite easy TO cure a disease
that never existed. Those boys never had
hydrophobia and never would have had it.
The dogs didn't have it. During that ex-
element we went to Newark and found a
lot Of dogs shut up. We asked to be al
lowed to take them away TO our stables,
know what was done with those dogs?
After the excitement was all over they
were given back to their owners, every one
of them. Not one was killed. Not one of
them had had anything worse than a fit.
Why, our men, who are constantly hand
ling dogs, get bitten again and again, but
they never dream of having hydrophobia.
It's a myth. There isn't any such thing"
Then you don't believe in the existence
of such disease?" asked, thinking that
as Mr.. Hankinson probably knows more
about animals than any other man in
America he must be good authority.
NO, don't. There may be such dis
ease, but don't believe it. never saw a
case or knew of one positively"
How about these doctors who cure it 2"
/ asked.
They don't cure anything. I asked
man who makes a speciality Of treating by
drophobia, as he calls its
do you mean DR.. Gibier, Pasteur's pu-
pill, and the head of the hydrophobia hos
pitaI here?' asked.
81 won't say whom I mean or don't
mean" said Mr.. Hankinson, warming up
to his story; ''but he treats hydrophobia
patients. | asked him once if he ever saw
one single case of hydrophobia to
which he could swear. He refused
to answer, but he told me this
story: man came TO him one day in
terrible distress. He had been bitten by
dog, he feared madness, he could not sleep
of nights and was afraid he was going to
die. He begged the doctor to treat him.
The doctor said il was too late; the period
OF incubation had passed and it would do
no good now. If he had hydrophobia
there was no way TO stopit. The man went
away, but came back again the next day
nearly frantic. He hadn't slept a wink
and begged the doctor to do something for
him. SO the doctor took the man into his
operating room and gave him hypoder-
mic injection of water-just pure Croton
water. He went away, slept for the first
time IN two weeks and came back the next
day for more water. and again the next,
and was soon perfectly cured. The doctor
told me that himself; and he processes to
cure hydrOphobial"
Why" continued Mr. Hankinson, 1--WE
had woman in Mysteries right in that
chair you're sitting in because dog had
bitten her. She wanted me to kill the
dog. | wouldn't do il. Then she
screamed IN terrible way. When she
stopped l said TO her: Madam, you
ought to be ashamed of yourself.