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Show "Dog Days" , , ' . Thai the ni'e h dreaded "dog days" are not a great peril I'or n,t,:H! v.ho are careful, is the statement of Dr.' Morris Pishhein, editor of two health magazines. The term "dng days,", he. says refers to a hot, dry, sultry .r-riod bcginiiin" late into August. It was supposed originally that during this' i.eriod dogs were especially likely to go mad. 1 happens to be the time when the dog star rises with I ,o .. a id astrologers attributed the sultry weather and i'he disease prevalent to the particular astrologic conjunction. conjunc-tion. Of course, the period of the dog days vanes in diiier-er.L diiier-er.L idealities and different climates. As might be exoeete.d, during this time water evaporate evapor-ate from pools and algae and other vegetable growths heron, he-ron, abu.vieet the water become foul and may smell bad. ISaHiers will do well to avoid pools of this character because r possible irritant effects from the growths, although such water is rot ne:u'K- so dangerous as water contaminated with human sev.'ai'K'1. 1'ne ,i.-r or o'hi r nnimal which goes mad does bo not as a result of air climatic condition, but through a bite or m-u m-u ;,uu v.'hHh the germs of hydrophobia have entered. '' ' IV; ibiy more madness is seen among dogs during the , i;,,,,-, as dog davs because animals are more likely to ii,.', and cover larger distance.fduring that period than iiiri.u' IK vi'iLer months. 4 , '.. , h-i-eo.'e, the heat and the lack of water are likely to r.'al-e the animal fore irritable, and more aggressive. It ,'.il'. ,,a"e in btilt'es in which it is likely to be extensively 11 V ide I' rem these factors there is no reason why dog days . jinli, . npalthful as my other period, and certainly '., .', .-. Witv one should avoid lake or pool bathing, as is it common but ;norant superstition. |