Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-06-05
Observation-Disclosures.
HEALTH GRAMS
Observation-Disclosures

Soda fountain season is here and
with it folks might recall that the
little invisible living things that some
times cause disease just love to in
habit dirty drinking glasses. The
drink may come a little slower
through a straw but the good 1t does
to the thirsty throat might last much
longer that way.
Dog day season opened without no.
tice in Springfield last week when a
rabid cur bit nine people and number
of canine fellow beings. This affair
precipitated military rule, so far as
dogs are concerned. All dogs that APP
pear in society must wear muzzles Tor
the next go days and longer If con-
ditions appear to warrant 1T after that
time. The human victims are all
taking pasteur treatment to avoid
rabies.
Rabies or hydrophobia is an acute
infectious disease that is practically
always fatal. The only way to avoid
it after exposure is to prevent At.
This can be done by taking the pas
teur treatment after being bitten or
otherwise wounded by a rabid animal.
Rabid dogs carry the injecting
germs Of rabies in the saliva of their
mouths. When tn doc bites another
animal the germs pass into the wound
with the saliva. The germs then
start on a journey along the nerve
path and continue, if uninterrupted,
until they reach the brain. Once In
the brain they infect the grey matter
and then the outward manifestations
of hydrophobia set in. Plainly 1t Is
then too late to cure the disease be
cause il has done the mischief and
that is why rabies is always fatal.
Anyone who understands this process
plainly recognizes the folly Of such
things as mad stones" for the treat
ment of rabies.
Mad" dogs have bitten more than
80 people in Hlinios this year and nave
caused a considerable Joss of hive
stock. Most of the dog bites have
been reported from the southern part
of the state with a dozen or more in
the central section. 1t Is depioiaDie
inconvenience and, perhaps palniuiIy
so to be wounded by rabld dog Dut
there is really nothing to get over
excited about if the patient be. prop
erly treated by the Pasteur anti-rabic
method.
Straw hat season is here and palm
beach suits with hardly more thah
an excuse for underwear will be IN
order for several months. 1t might be
well to recall in this connection that
the inside Of the body needs a httie
cbonoa in rainent too. The fellow
who increases liquids leafy vegetables
and fruits in his diet will suffer a
whole lot less from heat than the
beefsteak and potato standpattfr.
If YOU plan TO hug the radiator
next winter you might at least give
the "old" lungs an even break by
sticking close to the golf club or
fishing pole this summer. The fello"
who allows nature to put his human
machine in first class trim this sum
mer by continuous doses Of sunshine
in the open will have a running start
against the hazards of lodging low
temneratures next winter.
One might think that lodging auto
mobiles has become a major outdoor
sport for pedestrians. Last year lzoS
nersons in Illinois lost their lives while
playing this hazardous game and no
b1dy knows how many non-fatal IN
iuries occurred.
l. has been suggested that an in
ve.fioatiug commission be appointed