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Show The Terrors of Hydrophobia. Speaking of the present scare and M. Pasteur's alleged cure for hydrophobia, the New York Herald editorially says : "It is true that cases of hydrophobia are rare. That fact demands our gratitude. grati-tude. It is, however, a malady which gives no warning of its approach. Ordinary Ordi-nary epidemics throw out danger signals, and we prepare for them. Hydrophobia is the work of a moment. . It may be caused by the valuable pet of the household house-hold as well as the cur who slinks behind the ash-barrel. The bite of the snake benumbs and you die in unconsciousness. The bite of a mad dog leaves you in the possession of over-stimulated faculties. Your reason tears you and terrifies vou with the possibility of a horrible death. Your imagination is crazed, and inexorable inexor-able fate draws a picture from which the stoutest man shrinks with fear. Yes, there are only a few cases of - hydrophobia; hydropho-bia; if there were many, life would become be-come a curse. If you have witnessed a death scene from this cause you have not forgotten it, and never will to the end of time. Such terrors, such horrors, are not to be seen without a cry for a remedy. "If Pasteur has found it, well ; and if he has not, inquiry has been roused and will not rest until the enigma shall be solved. The proposed hospitals in New York, Newark and St. Louis for the treatment treat-ment of hydrophobia will be sufficient to serve the needs of the continent.. The experiments which are now being made in Newark will be followed with solicitude. solici-tude. The American people will keep the subject alive until the dread malady shall succumb to the discoveries of science.". |