The Arizona sentinel., 1896-07-18

 dogs is made through optics dis turbed by fear, and by persons in competent to interpret what they see" Notwithstanding every eff fort" he continues, made by the writer to secure the observation o rabies in man or dog, not single opportunity has offered itself dur ing the last eight years") the period of his observation).
 The record of the London Hos pital few years ago showed 2668 persons bitten by angry dogs. None of them developed hydrophobia St. Georges Hospital, London, re. cords 4000 persons bitten by dogs supposed to have been angry. Nc case of hydrophobia.
 In the record of all the diseases which have occurred at the Penn sylvania Hospital in a hundred and forty years only two cases which were supposed to be hydro phobia have occurred. Che oi these, however, the only one sub mitted to meteorological test, did not confirm the diagnosis "hydro- phobia," and the municipal author ities refused to accept the death as one from that disease.
 Finally, Dr. Charles ". Dulles, Lecturer on the History of Medi- cine at the University of Pennsyl- -vania, who has had the honor of being repeatedly appointed by the Medical Societies of the State to investigate tables, and has read various papers on the subject be- fore the American Medical Asso- citation. the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the Med dical Society of Pennsyvania, the Med;co-Legal Society of New York and has corresponded on the sub. ject with most of the distinguished medical men of Europe, q physician familiar both with the literature oi rabies, the history of Pasteur and the institutions called by his name. and who in addition has performed the almost incredible task of in- vestigatiing, either personally ol by correspondence with the physi, clans or others in attendance, every case reported in the newspapers 0 the United States for the past six teen years, shows that hydropho bia is extremely rare, so much ht inclines to the view that "tbere ., DO sascg specific naayody," Ia9i;a. "after sioteen ysars cf i'svest;yatio5 taiIed to find sing!s case On record that cen De co,sclusively proved t' haUe resulted from tie 6ite ofG doe or aasy other cause."
 "In view, therefore, of the i'm portance of the community to th' above statement, may we not ap peal to the press for their wides publication, and for the futurt suppression in its columns of sucl alarming and misleading report as we have above indicated? Thei
 prominence and the air of realit, they give to what are but errone
 ous interpretations Of phenomen
 having an entirely different mean. ing cause much suffering, especial ly to nervous persons, and ais , much cruelty to mans faithfu companion, the coniding dog" : The above IS concurred in by ha' dozen of the most eminent phys clans of the United States who hay practiced medicine for twenty | r forty-years and been on the lookor
 for hydrophobia Il! the tune.
 . The following from the Fl Pas l Herald is to the point: The man wh . asks g newspaper to stir up son = other fellow is ever the hardest kickt e when his turn comes to get lit l stirring. And ten to one he finds
 Cause for complaint when the pap supposed it was dealing in the utmo
 fairness and without thought of gi'
 ing offense. The Cnly editor who . ever really happy is the one who go # ahead, keeps his temper and sa. e what he thinks is cCrEect and fair, ( Q his own responsibility, ignoring u k requests of those who wish'otheF pe