THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1M, 1011.
MAD
DOG
SCARES
Hydrophobia an Uncom
mon Disease
WHAT TO DO IF H1TTHX; TJIKI
I1U1SSOX THKATMKXT; WAHM.
1JATJIS ESSENTIA Ii.
Mad dog scares recur with a de
gree of regularity suggesting delib
erate promotion. By some singular
process the public has been led to
believe that hydrophobia Is a most
common malady, when all authori
ties agree that It Is quite the most
uncommon disease known to science.
The vital statistics of the city of
Philadelphia, covering a period of
more than twenty years, do not
show a single death from hydro
phobia, and thousands of active
medical practitioners have gone to
their graves after many years of ac
tive practice without having ever
seen a case of hydrophobia.
Without discussing the merits or
demerits of tho Pasteur tratement
for hydrophobia, It Is important to
emphasize the fact that the records
of tho Pasteur Institute prove that
less than 15 per cent, of those treat
ed by the method required any care
beyond the usual dressings for an
open wound.
It Is of vast importance that all
persons should know that a dog bite
is not of necessity a serious Injury,
however painful it may bo.
It is very important that all per
sons should know that hydrophobia
Is exceedingly rare, and therefore
little to be feared from an ordinary
dog bite.
It is well to keep In mind the
fact that all dogs running amuck in
tho summer season are not afflicted
with rabies, and that the state of
mind of the person bitten has much
to do with tho success of the sub
sequent treatment.
Authorities worthy of considera
tion disagree as to the best method
of final treatment, but all concede
that the first thing to do is to clean
the wound. It is not at all difficult
to accomplish this early treatment
anywhere and at any time, as noth
ing is required but clean cotton
cloths and hot water until a physician
arrives and assumes responsibility
for tho after-treatment.
There is 'no occasion for excite
ment. There is but a very remote
chance of serious complications.
The patient need not anticipate the
worst by worry. In eighty-five cases
out of one hundred the wound re
sulting from a dog bite is no worse
or more painful than a wound
coused by any other agency. There
is more real peril in the mental at
titude of the patient than in the
physical aspect of the wound.
A cheap and most effectlvo cure
for hydrophobia has been perfected
by Dr. Dulsson. The Buissou vapor
bath treatment Is free In England
and In all the colonies where It has
been established by tho Crown, and
It can be most successfully given In
any home with but little expense.
Xo special or costly apparatus is re
quired. A foot-bath, a cane-seated
chair, and an oil stove or spirit lamp
Is about all the equipment required,
in addition to a number of blankets
and Ice water for the cold towels
to be applied to the head. An or
dinary cabinet or box bath is the
ideal apparatus, but the makeshift
proposed will answer very well, as
there Is nothing to the treatment but
a process of sweating.
In the course of treatment follow
ed. lug It will be noticed that tho use
of a box or cabinet bath Is assum
Tho head should be well bathed
with warm water uefore getting in
to the box. Assuming the patient
seated on the chair with tho feet In
hot water, a cold wet cloth should
be placed frequently on the head.
The duration of the sweating process
may extend to an almost unlimited
time; geenrally from twenty to for
ty minutes are sufficient, and during
this time the patient should be sup
plied freely with cold water to
drink.
Regarding temperature and dura
tion of the bath, the most rational
mode is to give as much heat as can
be comfortably borne, and to keep
the patient sweating profusely, but
under no circumstances should he
be given a higher temperature than
130 degrees Parenheit in vapor;
that is, with the head exposed and
breathing the ordinary air. A bath
of thirty or forty minutes would be
attended with greater benefit than,
say, for twenty minutes; that is,
if the patient can bear It without
any nervous upset. After the sweat
ing there should be a cool or warm
ablution as the patient can best
bear.
The frequency of the bath entire
ly depends upon the period of time
that has elapsed after the supposed
Infection from a bite, or symptoms
of hydrophobia developing. If the
patient Is subjected to the bath on
the first day of hydrophobic symp
toms, probably the first bath would
prevent its development; but it Is
advisable that tho patient should
take the sweating bath every six
hours for forty-eight hours.
If the patient Is not subjected un
til the second day of the develop
ment of the symptoms, It is recom
mended that the patient should take
the bath In bed (with apparatus)
without after-ablution, plenty of
clothing heapon on, with a cold
cloth to the head and a hot bottle
to the feet, plying the patient with
barley water (adding a teaspoon
ful of cream of tartar to a quart),
to be drunk through a cane or
straw tube; on no account use glass.
If the patient Is calm, repeat tho
bath In four hours until thlllo pain
ful svmntoms are relieved: and even
after the patient Is apparently well
continue tho sweating uatu tnree i
times a dny for a week, followed by
a watery nblutlon; the duration of
the sweating process being from
twenty to forty minutes each time.
Give tho patient freely light fari
naceous and fruit diet, as he must
be kept going well with nourish
ment. The Tyranny of Speed
The motor-car nuisance is evident
ly quite as great in England as In
this country, and in some respects
conditions are worse there because
tho country Is smaller. Nor has
more progress been made than in
the United States toward checking
excessive speed, though the problem
Is engrossing much attention, and
some steps have already been taKen.
It may be that England will be in
advance of America in this respect,
for as railroad regulation shows, the
English are more careful about risk
ing human life. But just now the
excitement of speed has upset nor
mal conditions, and no way has been
found to curb the reckless automo
billst. If police traps are set, the
offending motorists combine to give
each other warning. The case Is the
more difficult because, the sport, be
ing expensive, has fallen largely In
to the hands of those who should be,
on the old English theory, the law
makers of the nation, being the peo
ple who have "a stake in the coun
try." Quis custodes custodiet? as
they are fond of saying in Parlia
ment. Who but our old friend Pro
Bono Publico of tha fourth estate?
Hero and there Is already to be
found a village Hampden like E. H.
Hodgkinson, whose book, "The
Tyranny of Speed," is published by
the John Lane company. He writes
like a sturdy whig squire and he
professes himself a moderate motor
ist. As for his remedies they are
drastic.
It is nonsense, he says, to fix a
legal maximum of 20 miles an hour,
and then allow the use on them of
vehicles geared to 50, 60, even 100
miles an hour. It is not in human
nature to obey the law when a mere
touch will yield an acceleration as
exciting as It is illegal. Even those
who mean well are forced into com
petition by the reckless speed of
others; It Is not pleasant to be vir
tually standing still all day in a
cloud of dust, running a bare 2u
knots while others are roaring past
at double or triple the speed. So
the highways of England are virtual
ly being turned Into race courses,
with many distressing accidents,
much damage to the highways and
adjacent property, and great discom
fort and risk to the nonmotoring
public, all of which conditions Mr.
Hodgkinson demonstrates from the
records of recent years. It has be
come so bad, ho says, that motorists
I expect pedestrians to get out of the
way, instead of turning out them
selves, though a foot passenger on
hla own side of the road has as much
right there as a vehicle. As an ex
ample of the absurdly egostlc view
which high-speed motoring' encour
ages Mr. Hodgkinson cites the com
plaint of an English motoring Jour
nal; "Why people will persist In
walking In the middle of the road
at night without carrying lights has
often been a puzzle to motorists."
To remedy this state of affairs the
author with Draconian severity pro
poses to make It an Indictable of
fense to sell cars capable of brack
ing the speed law. For this there
Is some precedent In tho police reg
ulation of motor omnibuses In Lon
don, one clause of which reads: "All
cabs must be so geared that their
highest speed shall not he In excess
of the maximum laid down in tho lo
cal government board order." This
proposii has often been made, and is
highly unpalatable to motorists, who
declare moreover that such a provis
ion would not guard against reck
less speed In descending hills. To
meet this latter point, Mr. Hodgkin
son proposes to add an automatic
signal, a sort of burglar alarm, so
to speak, which will go off as soon
as the legal rate Is passed, whereup
on the driver would be compelled un
der heavy penalties to proceed to
the nearest police station to report
and get the signal reset, reporting
also to the first constable met on the
road, who would ask for the driver's
card carrying the address and the
number of the car. The fee charged
for resetting the signal would act
automatically as a fine, and the au
thor adds grimly: "As to tampering
with the signals, Imprisonment would
seem to be a suitable punishment, or
impounding the car, if necessary,
would prabably prove sufficiently ef
fective." In. short, tho motoring
laws would be made serious like the
laws regulating railways and ship
ping, so that a motorist would no
more go on the highway with an Il
legal machine than a skipper would
sail without his clearance papers.
Racing cars would have to be taken
In tow.
The results hoped for from tho
proposed reform would be that no
one could go faster than a speed
within tho power of all, and that
therefore the Incentive to racing
would be lacking. The author pro
poses to grade cars in eight classes.
Small cars would be allowed 20
miles per hour, and taxlcabs and
large touring cars 12; commercial
vehicles would range from 4 to 12
miles an hour, and for public service
there would be special vehicles cap
able of as high a speed as might be
needed. Such restriction, thinks Mr.
Hodgkinson, would draw the fangs
of the viper, and defend the right
of the public to use the road In safe
ty. He says with much justice:
"Motorists should remember that
although they are occupying more
of the highway than the pedestrian
or the cyclist, they are not neces
sarily more important to the state.
Worked the Visitor.
"Speaking about visiting English
men," said a hotel manager recently
who had been reading about one in tht
newspapers, "reminds me of one thai
came to the Talmer House In Chicago
some years ngo when I was room clerk
out there. He and nnothcr had been
paying n visit to the Rockies, and thch
last stopping place had been Cheyenne
Coming cast they had fallen in with
some Americans who made themselves
ngreenble, with this result:
"After they had put their names on
the register one of tho Englishmen
leaned over the desk.
" 'I say, ho whispered, 'I am expect
ing President Cleveland's son to call
this evening to return 50 which I
lent him on the train. Will you plensc
put tho money in the safe for me if 1
do not happen to be in?"
"I promised, for I hnd not the heart
to shntter his confidence in human na
ture. President Cleveland didn't hap
pen to have such a thing as a son at
that time." New York Sun.
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