| Show EXISTENCE OF RABIES DOUBTED Phy physicians sWans tjay may fright Is at the of nearly all alleged cas caas an interesting letter was iss issued uc the other lay day by the american antivivisection society appealing to the public not to circulate sensational stories about alleged mad dogs and the terrible re suits salts of people being bitten by them such accounts it states frighten people into nervous disorders and yet there is ia upon record a great mass of testimony from physicians asserting the extreme rarity of hydrophobia even in the dog the letter quotes a number of prominent physicians in support of the theory that practically practical lr there is no such aff affliction fiction to malkind as hydrophobia dr hiram corson lal lale e president of the pennsylvania medical society who was 94 04 years old wrote 1 I have never seen a real case of hydrophobia dr arall green the eminent physician of lafayette college who is over SO years old writes 1 I have never had a case of hydrophobia nor have I 1 ever seen a case dr matthew W woods who has been in quest of the disease for 20 years asserts that he be never saw hydrophobia in either man or animal although six years ago he offered 1 00 reward to any person bringing him such a patient he says further that he has never met a physician who had seen men a case of the disease such distinguished physicians as dr pavin parvin thomas G morton and joseph W hearn say that fright is responsible for nearly all alleged cases of rabies |
