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Show Rabies. People who have been skeptical regarding re-garding the existence of hydrophobia ought to pay heed to a United States public health service ' report which says that this disease Is a reality and not a dream, incurable and not infallibly in-fallibly preventable, and is a respecter respec-ter of no particular season nor spe cies of mammal. This promulgation from Surgeon General Wyman's bureau bu-reau admits that rabies may not be uniformly fatal, though it is almost always al-ways so. Pasteurization generally prevents development. The belief that rabies is more easily transmitted in summer than in the other months is called a fallacy. The explanation is that more people are moving about and become subject to attack. Nor is the maladv loeilized. It is liable to occur in the arctic or in the equatorial equa-torial jungles. Dogs, wolves, coyotes and skunks seemed to be especially susceptible. But not even within the canine tribe is the disease of spontaneous spon-taneous origin. This fact renders isolation iso-lation or destruction effective; elimination elim-ination of the affected animals is the only sure preventive. Springfled Republican. Re-publican. , |