Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-09-13
HYDROPHOBIA CURE.
THE DISEASE is NOT SO PREvA-
LENT AS MANY SUPPOSE.
It's Cure Is Easy and Certain by
Vapor Baths OF
Proof of This Assertion.


ED. STANDARD:
To the many who suffer from fear
of hydrophobia the following facts will
give great relief for they may be abso-
solutely relied on as coming from
those who have devoted years to the
study of the disease and its remedies.
In a discussion before the College of
Physicians, Pa, Feb. 2. 1894, DR.. John
Ashurt, Jr., said: "As a matter of
fact hydrophobia is q very rare affec-
tion. In considerable hospital ex-
perience, extending over thirty years.
have seen but one patient with hy.
drophobis. 1 do not know OF any
medical man in this neighborhood
who has seen more than one or two
cases. The records of London for q
number of years prior to Pasteur's re-
searches showed the mortality to be
about five in two years. We all know
that dog bites are very common in a
large hospital. scarcely a week passes
without two or three cases coming
under observation. The usual plan of
treatment is that recommended by
Youatt-cauterizatio with nitrate OF
silver. and hydrophobia almost never
follows"
DIR. Charles w. Dulles, at one time
editor OF the Medical and Surgical Re-
porter, says: "There is no similarity
between rabies in the dog and hydro.
phobia in man. There is hardly
point in which they are alike. With
regard to rabies in dogs 1 have some
notes, among them is the fact that at
the London Home for Lost Dogs,
among 200 900 brought to the institu-
ton there was not one case of rabies.
l know q number of persons who have
the care of kennels who have never
seen dog with rabies. During the
last five years we had in the United
States fourteen cases q year. have
gathered facts in regard to hydro
phobia and rabies from all parts of the
world and have studied these facts
earnestly and honestly and my views
are the result of these endeavors."
Mr.. Mayhem, veterinary surgeon, in
his admirable work on the dog, says:
"There is never more than one mad
dog in England at time" Statistics
show that only five persons out of a
hundred die even when bitten by a
dog which is really mad. The virus is
wiped off by the clothing with which
the teeth come in contact, beside
| there are several other causes. Dogs
often have fits or convulsions which
are mistaken for madness and the
symptoms of distemper have been
taken for those of rabies, from all OF
which they would recover if left to do
so. As hydrophobia is wholly dis
ease OF the nerves, person bitten may
have the disease from sheer fright.
NJ. Dujardin- Beaumetz (himself vivi-
eector) said in his report to the Acad-
emie de Medicine, 1889: at is not the
number of mad dogs that has in
creased, but the minds of the people
which have become affected by the
dread of this dire affliction, and which
becoming overweight by the numer-
GUS (real or fictitious) accounts pub
lished on the subject have engendered
what is now termed nervous hydro.
phobis," neither more nor less than
the absolute result of fear. This form
of hydrophobia is infinitely more dan
gerous than the other; it is calculated
TO have resulted in the deaths Of four
fifths of those persons said to have
died of rabies" One of Pasteur's
trusted servants has confirmed what
had already been suspected, that his
patients are now inoculated with a
little colored water, instead OF the cul-
tivated virus he used at first, and
which caused 60 many deaths, he
abandoned it entirely. Two hundred
and sixty-seven fatal cases are on
record as the direct result OF his inoc-
ulaiions, and these cannot be all by
any means, as his patients come from
all quarters of the globe, and in a
multitude OF instances, their fate must
be lost sight OF. Pssteur is not ply
sician but q chemist, possessed of the
modern spirit OF investigation, through
untold agonies inflicted on animals
Two years ago, Mr.. Philip G. Peabody,
a distinguished gentleman and lawyer
of Boston, Mass, visited his labora-
tories in Paris and gives most blood
curdling account OF what he found
there. He says: 1--WE saw and
counted about a thousand animals, in.
cluding dogs, monkeys, rabbits, mice
rats, pigeons, guinea pigs, chickens,
horses and cats. Every one of these
animals is kept alive through all the
agonies of rabies; some of them live
thus for weeks"
DR.. Ernest Bell says, at is incon'
ceivable how men with any pretense
to be scientific can allow themselves
to be played with in this style by the
! Parisian chemist. The only explana