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Hydrophobia Attacks Cows

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
September
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

HYDROPHOBIA ATTACKS COWS

On a Farm Two Miles East of This City

PROF. NOVY SEES THEM

And Advises That They be Killed - Were Shot Dead Monday Evening

Their eyes wildly gleaming, their mouths frothing while they lashed the air with their tails and pawed the earth furiously, two cows created terror among the people who live in the vicinity of the Rose and Campbell farms about two miles from the city, on the Ypsilanti road Monday.

For some time no one could account for the strange and savage actions of the animals until some one with a more retentive memory than the rest recollected that one of the animals had been bitten by a mad dog about a week ago. They were suffering from hydrophobia.

This was not the consensus of opinion among all of those who looked upon the infuriated animals. Someone suggested that they might only be suffering from a disease that might be cured and advised that they should not be killed until some medical authority should pass upon them.

Prof. Novy, of the University medical department was requested to come and look at the animals. He did so Monday evening and concluded that they should be killed at once. Acting upon the advice of the professor, the two animals were shot dead.

It is said the cows have eaten no food for over a week and. that they were almost starved when they were killed. There is little doubt but that hydrophobia was the cause of their illness.