Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-19
HINTS FOR DOG DAYS.
A FEW THINGS 1T WILL BE WELL
TO REMEMBER NOW.

Information from High Authority on the
"Mad Dog" Question-Popular Notions
on the Subject Are All wrong-No
| Danger from Hydrophobia.
The most eminent physicians claim
that there has never been an authentic
case of hydrophobia. Great pains have
been taken by many prominent in medi-
cine to secure proofs OF a case of genuine
hydrophobia, but each one has failed.
Pastours treatment, oven mis- close
friends reveal, has killed more subjects
than have died of this supposed disease
| during his operations. 1t is the convic
ton, based on long and careful investi-
CATION, of our foremost physicians that
hydrophobia is never caused by the bite
of dog, and that it is simply a hysteri-
cal nervous disease caused by an un-
| founded dread, and stimulated by NOR
bid imagination. However, there is
such u disease as rabies, and it is well to
take proper caution and remember these
| facts:
First, there are no ''dog days." popu
larly known, because there is no time of
the year when dogs are specially liable
to rabies. There are no more cases of
rabies in July and August than in De-
cember and January; second, there are
more than a million chances to one that
any dog which is supposed to be mad is
not mad at all: third, even If a person is
bitten by dog that really is mad, the dan
ger of hydrophobia is very slight; fourth,
| if bitten, keep cool, take half-dozen va
por baths as frequently as you can; this
is the Buisson cure, and it is in high ia
vor. All you need is to keep your nerve
and not allow your Imagination to run
away with your sense. just remember
that if you should happen to get hydro
| phobia it will be the first authentic case
in the medical history of this country.
And now to dispel few popular no
tions about mad dogs. We CLEAN these
from an admirable communication in
orr AnindI Friends by Mr.. John p.
Hanes, president of the American So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals;
/. 1t is supposed that a mad dog
hi't'uo ""u'i' ~ 10 llbu Sps nv muu
dog is very likely to plunge his head to
the eyes in water, though he cannot
swallow it and laps it with difficulty.
?. 1t is supposed that a mad dog runs
about with evidences of intense excite
mentS. 1t is not so. The mad dog
never runs about in agitation; he never
gallops; he is always alone, usually in "a
strange place, where he joys along slow
Iy. If he is approached by dog or man
he shows no sign of excitement, but
when the dog or man is near enough, he
snaps and resumes his solitary trot.
3. If q dog barks, yelps, whincs or
! growls, that dog is not mad. The only
sound mad dog is ever known to emit
is hoarso howl, and that but seldom.
Even blows will not cXtort an outcry
from mad dog. Therefore, if any dog
under any circumstances, utters any
other sound than that of Il hoarse howl,
that dog is not mad.
A. 1t is supposed that the mad dog
frothS at the mouth. 1t is not so. If u
| dogs jaws are covered or lecked with
"h'bp lipuhs thtt upS 10 NV iiuh. ht
surest of all signs that a dog is mad is
thick aud ropy brown mucus clingling to
his lips, which he often tries vainly to
tear away with his paws or to wash
away with water.
5. If your own dog is bitten by any
other dog, watch him carefully. II he is
infected by rabies, you will discover
signs of it possibly in from six to ten
days. Then he will be restless, often
getting up only to lie down again,
changing his position impatiently, turn
ing from side to side, and constantly
licking or scratching some particular
part of his head, limbs or body. He
will be irritable and inclined to dash at
other animals, and he will sometimes
snap at objects which he imagncs to be
near him. He will be excessively thirsty
tapping water eagerly and often. Then
there will be glandular swellings about
his jaws and throat, and he will vainly
eadeavor to rid himself of thick, ropy,
mucus discharge from his mouth and
throat. If he can, he will probably
stray away from home and trot slowly
and mournfully along the highway or
across the country, meddling with
neither man nor beast, unless they ap-
proach him, and then giving single
snap. The only exception to this be-
havior occurs in ferocous dogs which,
during the earlier stage of excitement,
may attack any living object in sight.
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