The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-06-30
Hydr0phObIa Fake.

isn't mad7" I asked Superintendent
Hawkinson of the American Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
one day as he sat in his little Office on
Twenty.second street.
Mr.. Hawkinson is good natured
looking man with reddish hair, who is
afraid of nothing and nobody; certainly
not of hydrophobis quacks.
"Why certainly" he said with decis-
ion. "That man down in Asbury Park
who was bitten by a cat was scared to
death. he died of nervous prostration
brought on by worry over an imaginary
danger. His friends were sill plying
him and hoped he wouldn't die, and
prophesyiDg that he would, and he was
man of q nervous temperament, as edu'
Gated people sometimes are, and itsimply
billed him. suppose he read up in the
books about hydrophobia and it 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 who were
sent over to Pasteur to be Cured p"
'Why of course, who doesn't?"
well, 1t is quite easy TO cure disease
that never existed. Those boys never
had hydrophobia and never would have
it. During that excitement ne went to
Newark and found q lot of dogs shut
up. We asked to be allowed to take them
away to our stables, but the people
wouldn't have it. Do you 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 of them had anything worse
than fit. Why, our men are constantly
handling dogs, get bitten again and
again, but they never dream of hydro.
phobia. Tt is g myth there isn't any
such thing"
a CASE OF IMAGINATION.
"TheD you don't belieye in the exist
ence of such q disease?" l asked,
thinking that, as Mr.. Hawkinson proba.
Ny knows more about animals than any
osher man in America, he must be good
authority.
"No, I don't. There may be such
disease, but I don't believe it. I never
saw case or knew of one positively"
"How about those doctors who cure
itW asked.
"They don't cure anything. I askeda
man 'aho makes specially of treating
hydrophobia, as he called it, if ever he
saw one single case of hydrophobia to
which he could swear. He refused to
answer, but told me this story: a man
came to bim one day in terrible distress.
He had been bitten by dog; he feared
madness he could not sleep at night
and WAS afraid he was going to die. He
begged the doctor to treat him. The
doctor said it was too late; the period of
inoculation had passed, and it would do
no good now. If he had hydrophobia
there was no way to stop it,
"The man went away, but came back
the next day nearly frantic. He h:dn's
slept wink and begged the doctor to do
something for him. So the doctor took
the man into his operating room and
gave him hypodermic Injection of wa
!! ter-juut pure Oroton water. he went
away, slept for the frat time in two
weeks, and came back the next day for
mogs water, and again the next, and was
soop perfectly cured. The doctor told
me that himself, and he processes to cure
hydrophobis."
SIZE WAS MAD.
"Why," continued Mr.. Haukinson,
Give had womsn in Mysteries right in
that chair you're sitting in because dog
had bitten her: She wanted me to kill
the dog. I wouldn't do it. Then she
screamed in terriblesway. When she
stopped, I said to her: Madam you
ought TO be ashamed of yourself. a 40.
man Of p,ar intelligence! You've in.
terruptsd the business of the Office and
drawn big crowd under the window to
listen to your 9slling, and all for q whim.
Somebody told yos you were going to 60
mad, and now you think you ought to 60
msd, and you'll be maa ii you don't 60
mad. You Just go home and say moth.
ing about it and you'll be al! ,ight.' And
she did it.
"Another woman brought hsr BOY in.
He had been bitten by mad dog, and
she wanted it shot, she said. Tbs boy
looked perfectly we'll.
"Now, look here,' said I, you've
been talking a good deal to the boy
about this, haven't you-and the neigh
bors, too? And you have been telling
him that he is likely to have hydropho-
bis, haven't you?"
"Yes."
Exactly said I. you've been tax
ing the precise course likely to drive him
nsad or make him think himself 80. You
hsYe been trying to scarce him to death.
If The were to go crazy it would be your
fault. How is it bub p said turning to
the little fellow. You don't expect to
60 mad do yoa?'
"'No, be didn't think he should,' be
said. He didn't feel any different. He
was a brave little fellow So sent him
home, too, and that was the last heard
of it. TIE dog had had fit, that was
all. It's shame the way people will
shoot valuable dogs just for q fit that
might easily be cured or avoided. ."-Ne'O
YorE World.
ChrIstinn Philosophy.
A lie in the heart is as black as it is in