The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-24

| good. Four weeks treatment will tell
| that. If he has it-that is, if he has ra-
bies-then ne is where he can do no harm
He can be used for an object-lesson to
| old and young. Women and children can
gather a well-dehned idea of what mad
dogs really are and thus learn how to
avoid them. After all who wish have
| learned their lesson then science can take
hand and by studying a mad dog at
| close range learn much 10 build up a bet
| ter underst2 nding Of how TO gain early
| knowledge of impending rabies. Then,
| too, there is a fine opportunity for ex-
| pertinent
The asylum is out in beautiful Mont
clair, n. J.. built away from the homes
| of the rich who people the place far out
on grassy pasture, shaded by blossom
| ing apple trees, watered by a ripping
| brook, protected from the chill blasts by
an overhanging mountainous of room
10 run ina dogs paradise, really.
The dog asylum is run very like an in
stitution for humans. 1t Is kept just as
clean. The need Of sunlight and fresh air
is just as strongly impressed upon the
keepers. The food-frona dogs stand
point-must be nutritious and we'll varied
| Bathing is insisted upon. Regular hours
for sleep, meals and exercise are part Of
| the regime.
There is a cell for each or the mentally
afflicted dogs When the case is violent
the walls are padded. Sometimes il is nee
| essary to put the dog in straightjacket.
There are regular tonics and medicines
for the different cases of dog insanity.
The percentage Of cures is quite large
larger than il is among insane men and
women.
Rabies is really dog paresis.
No human being afflicted with paresis
can hope for a cure. So no dog with
genuine rabies can ever recover. But he
is kept till he dies, the veterinarians con-
stantly experimenting and trying new
means of treatment-just as physicians
experiment in insane asylums with human
patients-fed, pampered and in a dog asy-
lum.
Who knows?
Dr. James Marlborough is the head ply
stefan to these mentally afflicted dogs
What he doesn't know about canine in
sanity isn't worth knowing. Some day he
may be exploited TO the world as the
first man to discover a cure for genuine
hydrophobia, just as other scientists have
discovered vaccination ,anti-toxin, the OPP
GRAFTON for appendicitis, cold baths to
lower temperature in typhoid oxygen for
pneumonia, and many other wonderful
things.
DIR. Marlborough is a doctor to insane
dogs, just as an alienist is a doctor to
Nor ryOT cd Snl0iar
on the field of battle, many a poor ex-
plorer in the wilderness has been treated
in far worse quarters than those in which
Dr. MacDonough treats his crazy dogs.
There are plenty Of homeless men who
would like to have the place to sleep that
these lucky dogs have.
Every cell is as clean as new pin. The
ventilation is good. Instead of iron bars,
as Humankind have, these dogs have
white screens. Atop each cell is a cover
of wooden bars. Within and without each
cell is freshly whitewashed. Sometimes
when the patient has acute mania, the
cells are further guarded with steel
screens and wooden doors outside the
wire netting.
Sometimes the violent ones among the
demoniacal fury that. like human beings.
they tear at the walls of their prison until
they crush in the wire netting Some
times they gnaw away at the wooden
bars until it becomes necessary to put
them out Of the way.
A merciful bullet does the despatching
with little pain to the victim. 1t IS akin
TO the tabled use OF the historical black
bottle in some Of the hospitals. One
draught and the doomed patient is out of
his misery forever. One human being here
I'm New York not long ago. confused in
the paroxysms of hydrophobia, got this
merciful ending to his agony. His own
father knew it was to be done, and con-
scented. rather than have his son suffer
further torture.
Piufully like the human insane are these
poor dogs. Here is one who plainly thinks
himself lord of all deportation. just as
some madmen do. Here is another with
melancholis, moping in his corner There
is one that barks joyously and turns up
his nose at his neighbors He has dog
megalomaria This one snarls and springs
at every living thing that approaches.
In a human being they would call that
homicidaI mania. over there is that would
XIII himself If he could-suicidal mania
Already has DIR. MacDonough shown
his crazy dogs to women and children.
that they might see In safety just what
rabies is and learn how TO know II and
avoid it. Some 200 took a chance TO see
q crazy brute the other day.
The patient was safe in his cell. yelping.
barking and scratching at everything
within his reach. Steel bars without the
wire netting and the wooden palings made
everybody perfectly safe The dog could
have done no more harm than can the
man afflicted with homicidal mania who J
springs at you from behind the steel bars
of his cage only TO fan back or the stone
floor. cheated of his unthinking desire
for blood.
Dr. MacDonough pointed out his patient.
which had already reached the second
stage of rabies and was beyond hope OF
cure or relief except by death His audi
snce drew closer. Most OF them were
girl pupils Of the High School Con
Quoting them were Principal George s
Walker and his teachers
Il would like everybody in Montolair 10
see this poor brute. announced DR.. Mac
Donough. leading the way TO the one
cell in all the line Of cells where the
doomed dog was proving 10 the onlookers
that he had genuine rabies.
Unfortunately. Dr.. MacDonough's ambi- /
ZION was not satisfied. The brute got so
rsbid. so convulsed with psroNysras. that
he actually bit away the wire netting
with his teeth and ehewed the wood
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