Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-30

Hay mo svmptoms ~ tiFt1sD
thuy listen 10 lectures uplH, aud
ln some Instances have become incaps
bio u motion aud sensation IN hall TIE
lJdy curling a realistic lecture OF csre.
uial nroplcKy 30 great lie the d iiucnce
Of MINI on the bolY.
From the experience In such cases
this auti.hydToshabla workers proceed
10 show that the disease In the human
frame 10 Of precisely the some charac.
ter aud arguing tom that standpoint
lhoy make thc citin that ~ the pu1p'o
eau be- educated t. feAlizs hu'
hyjroph.bn ls wholly n eimu'
lated dIs,tsr, thep d. v.v rsanr,ai
entirely u8 q luml nl.ua5u,
because nobJIy viii bu scared
ilt1 H. Reference IL iuaHu ne this con.
ntc'lon o. tho Italian dilrar,, lpnt.
t'm-a trrcirg mania following The
bite Of spider once t1frl1ly fatal AMI
later cur q BY music-whiU1 now 30
10 ger exists because tho people 90 ~
expect Il DO their minds 90 tetult Oi
tie spiders bite.
AsiJ tho actual existence of hyir
phobia IN human Doings, tho toi,i.
mooy Of oninent physIclani l. pro.
ssnted. Dr.. Hiram Cguon, who-o
practice critnicd over a period OF ~
year, during which he searched
diligently for the tifonSo In man
OF animal, slalos that he mover
had a resi- case Of hyifophoblh; DC,
Ipill Green makes simllat statement;
d. Matthew Woods, WHO has bscn In
quest o. the disease Tor twenty years
aud visited many reported cases, says
ho never found enc, and offers y
standing reward IN any Que bringing
him such patient; at the PhilaIelphls
dog pound, where 10000 dogs have
been handled, aud tho oatchOra and
ktcgcfs have been bitten fttqlgntly
during the past twenty-five years, no
case ever has occurred; Dr. Edward &.
spiizka declares his inability u disoov.
- 'AAhiN NAhN W AANlNhT W iINNN
patients recorded In ~. Georges hos.
pilal, London, ~ being bitten by Jogs
supposed 10 DO maj, not a case OF by.
drophobla resulted; Dr. Charles w.
Dulles, lecturer on the history VI mrdl.
cline In the University Of Ponnsylva-
MIA, aud familiar with the history aud
Investigation Of the disease, declares that
~ far az human beings laro c5ncetaod
"thote IL TO such specific malady,"
he having failed after sixteen ycais'
investigation to fnd n single case on
record that eau 10 oonclusively proved
to have resulted from the bite Of a dog
or any cause; and many other ptomi.
nent physicians confirm this view Of
the situation.
From this showing, II would
SVEN that hydrophobia. being a wholly
simulated trouble. resulting from
Imagination, will not loug remain to
iilghten people almost out Of their
wits When iho public becomes con.
vincoi OF what appears ON lhio show.
ing TO be- real Truth In the premises,
that thorc 10 no more danger attending
the bite oi dog than that OF cat OF
other domestic animal or OF wound
Of equal severity from any other
cause, there will be a great relief from
existing conditions. There are Of cour
many who viii DOUBT the comiotlablu
assurances above given, but even these
may be sooIhod In somo degree by the
positive statements made. Surely h
will be- a glorious boon to the Publ
whom hydrophobla Il compelled to
make ila Uzit from among the ill5 that
affect maukindi everybody ought 10
t,I0ice II even the fear Of tue diss-se
Can DO Iessenet.