| Show calls rabies a graft graff 99 uncle dick Iel fellows lows breeder tit of dogs whose home la Is at 1 Is Y declares clarea de that hydrophobia Is all imagination and the invention ot of physicians and specialists to I 1 racel ce As he puts puta put a it it la Is a graft 1 I 1 have handled dogs a year have been bitten hundreds of times and care no more tor for a dog bite than a scratch of 0 a pla pin he ha said to tha writer foolish and unreasonable periodical scares have pi ever since public attention was drawn to pasteur and hla his crank followers twenty years ago this has had a bad effect on the public mind magnifying the dan danger gerot ot at a very rare disease which Is so BO slight that it does nut not deserve public notice many other diseases such as aa tetanus ept epilepsy lepsy iti mania anta cerebrospinal mouen gatis tiava have been mistaken for hydrophobia similar symptoms have been induced in some cases by intestinal worms morbid growths and other dla dis curbing causes 1 I ickow of course that a dog with colic or earache or toothache or worms or epileptic fits Is always called a mad dog A callow reporter sees seea or bears ot of the case and under a scare heading beading he manages to do a lot ot of harm barm but iou may rest assured that there never was nas a genuine case of rabies in Ame america I 1 some years ago the american konnel club had bad a committee appointed to ta investigate hydrophobia find and they reported lust just as aa I 1 say ot of any city with a lot of mad dogs doga I 1 offer to let the worst specimen they can procure bite me just to prove that the dog la Is not mad none has as yet accepted my offer |
