El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-22

eral months ago, describes the symp-
| toms of the disease as he learned to
know them and as they developed in
| the TarangO boy. THE most pronounce
/ ed symptom is the peculiar spasm of
| the throat muscles which is so noticea-
| bic in this case" DR.. Staten said
Thursday night after he had been in
vited by Or. Werley to see the boy.
| This is what causes the boy to put his
hand to his throat and gasp for breath.
Being bitten on the right thumb nail,
/ the poison or toXine has travelled up
! the right arm through the nerve trunk,
causing neuralgia Of the arm between
! the Shoulder and elbow. The pain in
| the chest, also causing the boy so much
suffering, is due to the fact that the
nerves leading to the chest were af-
| Iected by the toxine or germs and the
neuralgia state followed. When I was
! there at o'clock, there was no dilation
! of the pupils of the eye, a thing which
is always so noticeable. But understand
that this symptom developed later. This
indicates that the toXines were spread
ing from the spinal cord to the brain"
ITO tell within a few hours after the
bite if dog is mad" says DR.. Staten.
The animal should be taken to j
strange place where the surroundings
are new. This causes it to become ex-
cited and the disease symptoms develop
of a person and, should the patient be
sent TO hospital, death is always has
tened.
1T is hard to give sedatives which
viii quiet one suffering from the dis
ease Only the strongest of these NOR
phine preferred, should be given, as the
others have little or no effect, owing
TO the great activity of the toxines
The symptoms Of the disease are invari-
able.
THE first symptom is a slight fever
and drowsy feeling, followed by a
huskiness in the throat. The fever then
goes down and the first indications of
contraction Aof the throat muscles is
noticed The throat becomes red, caus-
ing the disease to be diagnosed as
diphtheria when the symptoms are not
well understood The tongue then be-
comes dry and this is followed by
flow of thick, ropey saliva This causes
choking sensation and usually indi-
Gates the maniacial stage. The patient
then raves and is violent, after which
a coma state follows. The tongue gets
mouth This stage lasts but a short
time and is usually followed by uDcon-
seriousness and death.
The Test on the Dog.
ITO tell whether a dog which has
bitten person has hydrophobia. there
are two tests after death, although it
is always best to wait until after the
u days before killing the dog in or
der to study the case. If the body of
the dog is rigid Immediately after
death the chances of il having died
Of hydrophobia are strong Another
well known test is to examine the con-
tents of the stomach of the dead ami
NAL If it contains sticks, rocks and
small stones, the disease was present,
as the animal will invariably swallow
these substances in an effort to clear
its throat of this choking sensation. ~
Kill UnmuzzIed Dogs
The symptoms shown by the Taran-
ga boy were identical with those of
the Blakey boy, with the exception
that in the latter case no pain was no
ticed in the region of the wound. The
other symptoms were present and nv
study of the other case caused me to
see at once that the Mexican boy was
sufferer from the incurable disease.
There is but one treatment and that is
the Pasteur treatment, and there is but
one sure preventive, and that is to kill
all unmuzzled dogs. Hydrophobia is
spread by this method alone and the
sooner Eff Paso recognizes this fact and
starts crusade against the great num-
Der of unmuzzled dogs, the sooner this
terrible disease will be stamped out"