The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1897-08-06
RABIES & 'HYDROPH0BIA.
A VERY INSTRUCTIVE PAPER ON AN I'M
P0RTAKT SUBJECT.
nyDEorIioBIA AS oST OF TIE EAREsT
DISEASES.

DISEASES.
Tue present number ofour Animal
Friends is published at the beginning
of the |.dag days Hardly any
phrase in the English language is
more misleading or has done more
cruel injury to'mnn and beast than
this, BY the ''dog days people un-
derstand the period of great heat, oc-
2 curing chiefly in July and August,
in which they suppose that dogs arc
in peculiar danger Of rabies, and that
human beings arc therefore in peculiar
danger from the disease of by ydropho
bia, which is supposed to be commu-
la;estsa b5 b Bite Of q rabid dog.
5 ssluenccis thas any dos@hich'
ss1dav !kaI pen to be suffering from any
sf}iseasc 2hatcver during the dog
days is at oncc set downNas ''mad.
y frightened dog, cruclly pursued by
thou@htlcSS children with the cry
"mad dog is regarded with terror
ard is often Lrutally killed. Any re,
port Of Il case Of rabies, however III
founded it may be. is ut once cCmmu.
nicatcd to the newspapers. and
through them spreads CONSERVATION
among hundreds Of thousands Of
nervous people, sometimes, as We shall
prcscntl Y see, causing them 10 cN-
pcricncc the very symptoms which
arc supposed to accompany hydropho-
Tia. When it actually happens that
Il human bcin. is bitten by dog, lie
is ut once assumed to be i'll danger Of
hydrophobia, and he very ottcn re-
sorts TO cXpcdicnts Of prevention or
cure which are much more likely to
induce simulated hydrophobia than
to prevent CT cure the reality.
Now, the very first observation We
have to make on this subject is that
thcrc arc no such days i'll the year,
calendar as dog days. There are
days on which and there is no kind
of weather during which Il dog is liable
to rabies. Rabies is 4 rare disease Il,
all seasons OF the year, and there are
10 more cases Of rabies in Jul Y OF
tuSust tI!dii III l'c'cHlDCL VI odhu"!
II. follows, therefore, tliat there is 10
MORO creason to dread oar family friend
~thenog' III hot Wea'hcf Una" IN cv''"
ana no more reason 10 orca' i'y'''"
rhooi' irom his o'te at one ''''c o'
thc year thah at anothcr: INC phrase
dog day" is false anl misleading
phrase, which oil human persons
O"S"' 70 ''o'' III TIC in'c'es' VI '"'
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lhcE oH5'i' cI"ai'y 10 a'oI" '"c
hl""c III INC interest o, human Oe;''1'
lor We Sh"il presently Sno" t''a''
SrcH''E ana c'"cl'E as 'o5S nave peer,
ha"c 20 'uHcr irom inc general drGa'
"' f'''eI' 1t i more '',"'' Pr'o"''c ''"'
human oc'hSS nave pcc'' ever, more
cAtchNl'c'y "n' more cF1e'i.! ""''otr'' s,"
py 'he terror ol hE"'oPi'o''a' nc
""Jcct oil 'hc present aF'lc't Is emery
10 remove rs l"' ~ l''ss'p'r' '''e per-
nici'"1 an" query % "',;'u';"y:' i ;; 'rI'oT
".''e'' ms i"''oG''! S''I, Injurious '''''
o''c'' c'"''Y anu i''''' i'S"''''
HlDEprIioElA l. "NE"I THE EAEEST
OF hiSEA"Es.
First Of all, then, We undertake to
show that genuine hydrophobia is one
Of the rartSt of al the diseases by
which humanity is afflicted, AID We
might begin by saying that rabies,
canine disease from which hyIropho
bia is supposed to be contracted, is
also one oftho rarcst diseases Of the
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