The Truth About Hydrophobia

Unaucsiionably mistaken noüons nbout h-droplitiblft ■;:! !■(? vn mifold amotint ol tffijsfiï'1"' ■,-,{ "inni'l to nervous people, to whom the terrier is a terror, and who tremble before the poadle diinn:; the period of the rnsjinj; dog star. Si li peo pie funeral ly afomïri fp ilorrs, and if they have caninc pets forbid thnir chüdren to plajLwith thfero in hot weathcí, aña torment the poor lieasts to (iesppration liy dint of öontinnftlly testins rheiï sanitary roirdition with appiications of water. We t ke tTii-i onii ïvhi'iif v. theraforp, to $Tf! cc]-t:i;-v c:""T fff ti,i latos) vftprinarv se,iene(5 on the mibjnct of Iiydrophobin, t 'k"n from n raoent -i ldrns bv Dr E P. Ptrilpotlj Iw.f,;.. .1,.. 15 -till M.. lii-,-,1 ABO0VÍT1 otï , íitvT 1TÍ lórp ] hv on1 oí' the newt 'lUtinsrir's')"'! of BnarJish n ittirnlists Tbere asTw" foruis rf cívnlñfi rnbi8, cue of whicb is eommunicable to in-m. Tbi fortn ig eaïl d hyirophobia, aul i.T 'ihv iv= f ït t! Irjth ti unimvl and inrtn. It. i vrv rare at uil timo, and anfiftMy lf"= frpquflnt in warm weather thün in rttifA go th;tt it' wSB lire troinir to iii'izzle onr aoars fir hvdrophobio we had bptter rlo it in winipr tlian Bumtoer. Tlie di'srnc of ir ini'v may h in lcil from thn frtet th it vrry fow phyfifiin-. even of lons expenenoi eau recali a single instauop of a person '1 vinsr iVoin true hydro pholiia. A man is pyhnj)S abou.t :is hkelv to die thiü v-y ns (o le eirnck !y lifflitniiiï, a daneer sca:cely worth lyinjn-!Ve about eeitniiily. B'it 'irr a.bont tlio nnmripr of dorr tliit do undoulitel'y ro into a rabid conlttion everv xifn n ■■ im 1 r in :i muok down th streot, frotbiiig.í barkins; and bitine? These are afflioted, aocording to Dr Philprts, with t! BPortfird ferm nf rabies, a distenappr somfwhat similar in RVMiptom to hyiroph'ihÏA, bat readijy distinLrviis!n.t)](' trom it. This Is quite common, pspeci illy n =.ummer. I' is not, howfrer miiior any oiEOums'ancea i mrmicalili' to n:an stid n bite by i ■! : vhis i ■ iif i-oti h is n o '4 ']"■ cff '''f than tke bife of n hniltïvy d ïar. Tle attacl? is not ganerally fit:i! to the atlimd ï'nl ?s ny gniriiTx soni jlwiy iirto sliootin? him. T-i this (liitniM-r, ;is ia liv-lr .r.i ' i ■ ' i i. thidoLf ïrftth?, howh mi 1 snin, ;mrl i-; nf flinte'l with khfi same convulsiona in the throat, but while the hydroplinbicf dnir flip- fi-iim wit"r, the flistèmpprpd dog tries to drink it, hut is unible. Ninefeen oul of twenty of thodosssh t every yoir for lwrlropriohiit uro enlr flifttempoTfu, :nvl if sluit, up for an hour or two vyonlil rocover. Thist fuct accninfü. nmoiiff oMier thinirs, for tlio rennvkiiW (lisor"i)iiiey betwfleu th shoc'íinprly lnr{;e nninber of thoie who are voiirly bitton by -c i" m1 miel dos", nnd iimizinrly smnll nuwber of j actual deaths by that dise:ise.