The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1904-01-06
IT WAS RABIES,
Investigation of Dogs Head
Makes this Certain.
Local physicians Issue Statement
About West side Affair--Uthers in
Danger Of Infection-Dogs Should be
KiIIed-Diseussio of the Natter,

Local physicians Issue Statement
About West side Afiair--Uthers In
Danger of Infection-Dog should b,
Discussion Of the Matter.
As many are aware ere this. thai
dread disease rabies,is among us and
that at least two persons have beer
bitten by rabid animal within y
week, and because of the disbelief oil
many in such a disease, either be.
cause they are wiliuliy ignorant OF
because OF the teaching of few sell
ST. led authorities who do not
believe in such disease because they
never saw a ease, it would seem that
some facts in regard to the disease
should be stated.
We wish to give here statement
which tells its own story.
Plttsburg, Pa, Dec. %, 1908
This is to certify that we have made
examination of the ganglia of the
dogs head little brown brought to
laboratory by Mr.. David Breakiron
of Morgaptown, and that the LESSONS
microscopically correspond as LESSONS
of hydrephobia. A, Leteve, NJ. d.
Mercy Hospital. Pasteur Dept
This dog was known to have bit.
ten at least three dogs in Granville
and was with several others TO each
of which the infection may have
been carried, besides the other dogs
and stock that may have been in.
feeted by IL between Granville and
where il was killed at Mr.. Ulysses
Camps.
Beside the above two persons bit.
ten, at least three others were at.
tackled. The claim is made that
the skin in none of these were
broken. The best authority sub.
stimulates the fact that it is not
necessary that there be lesion OF
the skin as absorption oil the virus
NAV take place whore the skin is not
broken.
At present, so far as known, not
one of the dogs known to have been
bitten, have been killed or even con-
fined, but 7re allowed to run at
large, menace To- the public, and
one that may be OF sorrowful pro
portions. l do not know that there
is any legal disobeying of the law in
their acts but morally and socially
they are surely guilty oil grave
wrone, and should be legally guilty
OF premeditated and murderous
act.
For the correctness OF the state
ments following we refer you TO the
Yearbook of the department of
Agriculture Tor 1900.
This disease has been fully de.
scrihed from the time OF Aristotle
1923 b. C. till the present day
Almost invariably described as fatal
in men and animals. The Veterinary
Profession has consistently aud
taught the existence
of the disease.
The Medical Profession has Away $
recognized the existence OF said
disease and taught It's communica.
bi'itv to man. Would it not be ex
traordinary, amazing, incredible, if,
at this late day it were proved that
the thousands and hundreds of
of obs rvations recorded
from the birth of history To the
present day, by the trained phi !; sician
or veterinarian AS well as the layman,
were misconceptions, that the au-
thors were deceived. and that the
disease was myth.
The diagnosis OF rabies has been
called in question 10 all ages, and
there have ALWAYS been persons who
have asked, how do you know that
this particular animal or that this
individual person Is affected with
rabies and not with some other dis
ease of the nervous system? The an
swer to the investigators is If iDocu-
iations from this animal or this person
transmit the disease to the lnoculat-
ed animals. then it Is certain that
the individual from which the moe
ulatlon was made was affected with
not he produced with the saliva Of
animals or men affected with nonc,ip-
tagious diseases, nor Is there any
other known contagious disease with
similar characteristics which may be
COMPOUNDED with rabies The moe
ulation test is therefore 40 accurate
and reliable test.
1t is mistake TO say that the dis
ease alleged to be rabiss has not been
defined with sufficient clearncss for
its identification. Consider the de-
scription: A disease affecting princi-
pally the nervous system, shown Thy
nervousness, excitabilty, restlessness,
irritability, paroxysms OF fury, un-
comfortable desire to bite other ami
mails, commissions, paralysis, death;
caused by the bite of an animal SIM
ilafly affected; communicable by
incubation with the saliva; having a
long period OF incubation; coDpar-
tiveiy short course of disease (twu To
ten days invariably fatal
Aristotle taught that rabies was
fatal to dogs and to every other crea-
ture Which they bite except mankind.
First because only portion Of the
persons bitten by rabid dogs subse-
quently show symptoms Of the dis
ease. Second, there are other abnor-
NAL conditions of the nervous system
In man which are accompanied by
symptoms resembling closely those
ascribed to rabies. Third, some per-
sons who have been bitten by dogs
not rabies have by constant worry,
anxiety, and fear of rabies induced a
nervous, historical condition, with
symptoms Stimulating som ewhat those
of the actual disease.
1t is not surprising that a number
of writer's Of limited experience and
the habit OF superficial observation
should reach the conclusion that the
view of Aristotle was correct, and
that those few who seemed to have
the disease had brought on the symn-
toms themselves by worry and fear,
being affected not with rabies. but
with lyssaphobia.
This reasoning was quite plausible
a century ago, but 1t received adefln-
te answer when Magendie and other
investigators inoculated dogs and var
ious gther animals from human vic
Tins of the disease reproducing it 10
typical form, these experiments prov
ed most conclusively that man as well
as the lower animals is subject to
rabies.
Many are calling in question the
fact that we can have rabies in winter
time. or during the cold months, and
are claiming it is only a disease pecu-
liar 10 the hot months. The depart
ment has compiled table by months
from which we take the following.
Out OF a total of l4066 cases they are