Show I HEALTH TALKS I 5 By Dy DR R. R H. H BISHOP Mad dog Perhaps you jou ou will hear that terrible cry once or twice this summer It is a SI signal to scurry to shelter During the dog days of ot summer e everybody e f fears ears a n. mad dog Yet tet rabies or hydrophobia h which often orten follows the he bite of or a mad or rabid dog is Just u a as dangerous t us In winter as during the e hot season For rabies 1 contrary to popular opinion is an all an the year ear round disease The I germ that caus causes s rabies Is present In the saliva of a a. rabid animal animal ani ani- mal and enters the body of or another animal or human being through a bite or break In the skin Generally the disease develops within from fifteen to ninety days In man though it has been known to develop as early as ten days and as late a as a year or more after the In infecting in- in bite To guard against the danger of rabies everyone should know the symptoms There are nine which may easily easly be recognized by the layman The They are 1 sudden change in disposition 2 21 unusual nervousness or irritability lit 3 tendency to leave heave e home ha nt g 6 seh change 4 change e in voice t to a horse bark or husky growl 5 difficulty In swallowing particularly fluid food tOOd 6 tendency to snap anal or bite without provocation 7 weakness j or paralysis sis ala of the legs le-gs or lower Jaw 8 an Increased flow of saliva 9 the desire desire de- de sire to swallow abnormal substances such as wood stones etc hasten It If ff a A. A dog K has bitten anyone ayone dont don't to shoot the offending animal ani- ani mal but lock I It up In ln order that a diagnosis may be made mede As the first stage of the tho disease progresses a dog clog will scarcely touch its favorite food toOd or will wilt refuse to swallow it lift oven even after atter auer Jl having It In n the tho mouth Later it will reject all food tood but chew objects within It its reach and swallow them if It possible Cauterization of ot the the wound and the Pasteur trea treatment nt are measures designed eed to prevent ev the he development of the e d dl disease after me heb b being bitten but should be undertaken only under the bite eUP supervisIon or of f a competent Phy- Phy |