The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-22

healthy offering least; a. the virulence Of
the saliva at the time of the bite; 90
the quantity of poison that gets into the
system.
The great danger from this dumb hydro
phobia is that people may never know
the risk to which they have been exposed
ii is too late to help them Within
ten days from the first symptoms Of pee
vishness the animal exhibits alternately
ravenous hunger. and los sof appetite.
1t may be so parched with thirst that
ii will throw itself into a river to try
and get water which the swollen throat
has no power to swallow. On the other
hand. it may have suffered much excru-
ciating pain from trying to swallow, that
the very sound OF water throws it into
paroxysms of agony. Finally. usually
within two weeks or less. violent parox-
ysms come, ending in death. The dog
cat, or horse may never have shown the
slightest disposition to bite. but dies with
kind-hearted people-often children-worll-
ing over it a. the risk OF their own lives.
The first manifestation of the violent
or rabid hydrophobia, which people are
quick TO protect themselves against be-
cause they recognize il at once, is the
animal going on the ramp. The other
classic symptoms have precede this, but
unnoticed I'll 1.-The beast tears blindly in
every direction. biting a everything not
because he is vicious, but because cat
dog or horse-he is as madly of his
head as a man in violent delrium ire
mems. To be specific, the lining of his
brain is on fire He sees imaginary enc
IL &c he
ing pain in auu the range of what is
known to science. and like the man flee
ing from blue snakes he attacks every
thing in his path. Every doctor. from
New York TO Paris and Vienna will tell
you tn same -hydrophobia in such
a terrible death that no one who has wit
messed one such will, if he can help il.
ever witness another.
Now all this may happen six months
after the hounds have come back from the
South. II the dog is young the disease
develops earlier; but statistics by Proust
and Broudel in France. and by Hogyes in
Hungary. show that out Of 200 cases
more than half were fatal between the
twentieth and the sXtieth days after the
bite An incubation Of only fourteen days
sometimes occurs from numerous and deep
wounds in the face The same holds true
Of animals Variation in the period Of de-
velopment depends on the same factors
as the risk: location Of the wound. depth
and number Of the wounds. condition Of
the subject. viruienece Of the SILVA, and
the quantity Of the saliva
The very foundation OF Pasteur's treat
msnt is prevention. not cure. Once the
disease has begun 10 work in the human
system. no power on earth can avert the
most terrible pain and death known 20
Silence The Pasteur treatment IS to pre-
vent the disease beginning 70 work eau
terization is useless unless done few
seconds after the bite with Tuning nitric
acid. Galtier found that rabbits inocu-
lated at tn g tip Of the ear died Of rabies.
tuouch the ear had been cut Of twenty
minutes after the injection. Cslaorosc
found virus in q dog twenty-four hours
after virus got into the eye. The Pas
te,lr treatment is not cure but pre-
vention. and should be used Immediately
after tho exposure - insure safety II
consists Of injections with the marrow Of
"a bb;ts having died Of rabies. which had
besn communicated by the intra cerebral
IN ,ectso-s OF virus fxs. that is. virus
which will invariably XII an animal in
Ten DAYS The spinal cords are attenust-
ed by desication in dry air at teupera-
t,-e Of y degrees Centigrade in a dark
room. The treatment is begun with cord
having been submitted. 10 desiccaton for ]