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Show DISEASE SPREAD BY ANIMALS Scientists and Physicians Have Pre. pared a Strong Indictment Against the Beasts, Although animals are not affected by the sickness and communicable diseases dis-eases of man, yet, for some uuexplain-able uuexplain-able reason, the scientists and physicians physi-cians declare that a whole host of ofttimes fatal ailrAnts of mankind are traceable to the beasts, says Popular Science Monthly. The horse is blamed for spreading glanders, rabies, lockjaw and other diseases dis-eases of five or more syllables. Dogs and cats are branded as the circulators circula-tors of rabies, parasitic worms of different dif-ferent kinds,' fleas and ticks. The cow is the worst offender. The list of diseases laid at her baru door is headed with tuberculosis and grows constantly more blood-curdling, until we wonder why physicians and scientists scien-tists consent to the use of milk, butter and cheese which still lead the dietitians' dieti-tians' list of nutritives. Rats, squirrels and fleas spread the, bubonic plague. We are prepared to believe that lice and bedbugs, flies anil mosquitoes are the rapid transit line for yellow fever and malaria. We ary willing to forego the luscious oyster all the year around, if need' be, to avoid typhoid fever. |