Show A calls rabies a graft 6 uncle dick fellows breeder ot of logs dogs whose home la in at Is Y declares that hydrophobia Is all imagination and tho the invention ot physicians and specialists to secure practice As he puts it it Is a graft 1 I have handled dogs a year have been bitten hundreds ot of times limes and care no more lor for a dog bite than a scratch of a pin lie he said to the writer foolish and unreasonable unreason ablo periodical scares ume hae prevailed ever since public attention was drawn to pasteur and his crank followers twenty years ago this has had a bad effect on the tha public mind magnifying the danger ol of a very rare dis disease easi which Is so ro slight that chat it does docs not deserve public notice many other diseases such stich as tetanus epilepsy mania cerebrospinal manlia gitts have been mistaken tor for hydrophobia similar symptoms have been induced in borne bome cases by intestinal worms morbid growths and other disturbing causes 1 I know of 0 course that a dog with colic or earache earach 0 or toothache or worms or epileptic e fits fita is ali always aurb tailed called a road mad dog A callow reporter sees or bears of the case and under a scare heading beading bo be manages to do a lot of 0 harm but ou way may rest assured that there never was a genuine case of rabies in america amerl somo some years yeara ago the american keu net club had a committee appointed to investigate and they reported just as aa I 1 say whenever I 1 bear of 0 any city with a lot of 0 mad dogs I 1 offer to let the enorst specimen they can procure bite rue roe just to prove that the dog Is not toad mad none has as aa yet accepted my iny offer |