New-York tribune., 1901-09-26
BO4RD OF HE4LTH'S DOG WATCH
A MEDICAL DISCUSSION. WITH SIDE LIGHTS
ON SHAKESPEARE AND ANOTHER POET.
Let Hercules himself do what he may.
The cat will NEW and dog Will have his day


1t Let Hercules 1es himself do what he may:
The cat Will NEW and dog Will have his day
Shakespeare is indicated in respect to another
contested passage. and confusion is brought upon
those who think that Shakespeare is sublime. If
only he is furnished with trimmings of their own
manufacture 1t has been suggested by Of
these persons that the word day ought be
bay 1t is perfectly plain" they say. the cat
news, the dog bays: that is evidently the meaning
Of the passage" The would then be, OF
course that nobody. not even Hercules. could keep
a cat from mewing dog from baying.
But this could have been Shakespeares
meaning. because 1t proves TO be untrue and
everybody knows that Shakespeare knew every
thing. and made mistakes. There is some
thing TO keep dogs from baying-or barking-and it
comes in bottles and 1t does not take a Hercules
to administer II. A woman testified before the
counsel of the Board OF Health on Tuesday that
she was in the habit OF giving her dog something
which prevented his barking. wherefore the COM
plainant who said that the dogs barking kept him
awake. must be mistaken.
Unfortuna tely. the woman's description OF the
drug not minute from chemical point of view.
She called 1t merely IAN anti-bark thing 1t is to
be hoped that the Board of Health. If it receives
favorable report OF the efficacy OF the remedy. will
give the secret to the world. On the homeopathic
principle of like cures like. It might be some
sugar of milk saturated with ten-nillionth solu-
ton of Peruvian bark This is mere conjecture but
confidently recommended for the little yapping dogs
of the neighbors a good one is small quantity of
paris green spread amb chop.
The complainant in this case was forced 70 admit
that he was a nervous man. and in the mind OF the
owner of the dog and the ''anti-bark thing
doubt that settled 1t II is strange that many
should regard the fact that person is nervous
placing him beyond the pale of human sympathy.
A disorder Of of the most sensitive organs OF
the body is regarded almost universally culpa-
BILE defect OF character. instead OF disease In
reality disease of the nerves is Just worthy OF
sympathy as the worship of little dogs, which is
disease of the brain
Concerning a dog it has long been maintained
that his bark Is worse than his bite and 1t was
not till the present generation that poet arose
not so great as Shakesteare. yet with clearness
OF vision Of his Own-wtJn the perspicacfty and the
courage TO declare that although the bark
worse than bite, he would rather have the bark
of the two Science is advancing. and after IL is
established that the greater evil of the bark be
cured pathologists may turn their attention to the
lesser one and devise sort of anti-bite thing
hetter than the antiquated muzzle In the mean
time the Board of Health has obtained cultures OF
the ''anti-bark thing and will policeman TO
watch them for weeks. AT the end of this dog
watch the world will perhaps learn something OF
advantage TO its nerves