The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-17

restless although he viii still obey his
masters voice. Later he seeks solitude
and dark places and Will often look into
space and will NOT respond when spoken
to. The voice changes. the latter part
Of the note in barking becomes prolonged
and higher pitched. There is on fear of
water and the animal will drink water
and other liquids until the throat is par
alyZed. AS the disease progresses the
tendency to go into furious fits of rage is
marked. He will seize sticks or anything
within reach. If at liberty he will attack
everything he can come In contact with.
and will swallow stones, rags, bits Of
wood or any other foreign matter. In
deed. the contents of the stomach is char
acteristic of the disease. If the stomach
is found to be filed with these foreign
bodies after death it is a very good indi-
cation that the dog had rabies. In the
paralytic form the animal does ont at
tempt to bite or harm any thing. The
mouth is open. Ias the muscles of the jaw
are paralyzed and death soon occurs, US
ually on the third or fourth day.
The disease in man always causes in
tense excitement and in few cases the
furious and rabid condition is seen. This
is soon followed by paralysis and death
The term hydrophobia was first applied
to the disease in man as during the first
stages the sight of liquid of any Kind is
apt to produce spasms. Occasionally fur
ious mania is seen, but in most cases the
persons are not dangerous to themselves
or to their attendants.
DDS
Institutes in many Of the large cities
where scientific treatment can be had for
the bite of a rabid dog and these places
should be patronized by any who has
been unfortunate enough to be bitten by
a mad dog. In those institutes they have
transferred the disease TO rabbits and it
will kill these animals in a very few
days. The spinal cord is taken from the
rabbit after il dies with the disease and
the medulla, or the part next to the
brain, is dried in a glass vessel for two
weeks. At the end OF this time the virus
of the disease has been almost killed by
drying. \ small piece of this cord is
ground up with some water and it inoc-
ulated into the person who has been bit
ten. By having rabbits die of the disease
every day the cord is always ready. After
the person has been inoculated with the
very weak material they are inoculated
In day or so with material that has not
been drying so long and consequently is
stronger, this treatment is continued u.s.
ing stronger and stronger material for
each incubation until they can be inocu-
lated with material directly from the
dog or "a bbt and no harm come of the
operation. This Is in a general way the
method of treating a person who has
been bitten by mad dog.
There are almost as many ideas as to
the cause of hydrophobia as there are in
regard TO the treatment. The truth of
the matter is, the cause is not known.
Whatever the cause may be il is found in
the spinal cord in the slobbers of the
dog that has the disease. The virus is
easily killed by heat, dying and by chem
icals, but no one knows just what is in
the nervous system or the slobbers that
when introduced into the system of
person or another dog by the bite of a
mad dog will produce the disease. While
science has helped US to know there is no
virtue in the maidstone there is work
still for the scientist in discovering the
cause of this most dreaded and terrible
disease. MAX DRAKE.