In case you are bitten by a dog, see to it that the dog is not killed, but that he is confined and well taken care of for a few weeks, at least until you can see and know for yourself that he was not mad, and then you can drop the matter. What an insane idea it is to kill the dog after he has bitten you, for then you will never know whether he was mad or not, and the constant dread and fear will always be with you, and probably - if you are of a nervous disposition - may yet cause you to "go mad" and die. I have often been called in to put a poor dog out of the way that was supposed to be mad (and I chloroformed it according to orders from its owner), thinking to myself at the time that it was better for the dog than to live and be cared for by an idiot who did not know near as much as the poor dog, who was in serious trouble, of course, but due to some natural cause and not to so-called hydrophobia. Sometimes, however, out of pity for the dog, when I saw he had a chance to live if properly treated, I have asked to be allowed to take the dog to my kennels, and I went to work and saved the poor fellow. I am deeply in earnest in my views oil tins' much-mooted subject, and I believe that thousands of people would be alive today that have died from hydrophobia if they would look at the matter os I do and act accordingly. Many poor dogs have fits in summer, due to many causes, but they could nearly all have been cured if properly treated in time, and as all important diseases are treated in this book, if you will follow its teachings your dog will live until the time comes for him to pass in his checks and go to "dog heaven" with the rest of the good canines gone before.

A hard question for you or any doctor to answer is, "Why have I not gone mad" when it is a fact not to be denied that I have been bitten bitten by so-called mad dogs? I am willing to be convinced that I am wrong, if it can be done. While I may be taking up too much space on this subject, yet it is an important one. I will next give two interviews that were published in March, 1896, in a St. Louis paper that may interest and benefit some:

"Prof. Al. G. Eberhart, who came to St. Louis last week to assume active charge of the preparations for the bench show, is a man who has spent the better part of his life raising and caring for dogs, and his opinion upon this subject is that of an authority. Prof. Eberhart says:

" '1 nave been bitten by dogs over a hundred times in my life and carry scars now that I've had for twenty-five years. Some of these so-called mad dogs have bitten me, but yet I am not mad. I have been bitten by dogs that veterinary surgeons and regular physicians have pronounced and diagnosed as having rabies, but I didn't go mad because I've yet to see a genuine mad dog. Had I been nervous and easily scared I would very likely have been buried long ago. Some ten years ago a young lady in New York City was bitten by her pet dog, and, not wanting to have it killed, it was sent to Harry Jennings, the dog fancier. The dog bit him several times. The young lady died in three weeks from alleged hydrophobia, and Harry Jennings is alive yet. The young lady died from fright. This I know to be a fact. Find me a doctor that can tell what hydrophobia is, then I'll try to believe there is such a disease. If the doctor can't tell you what the disease is, he surely can't cure it. When a dog bites you, if it is on any part of your body where you can get your mouth to it as soon as bitten, suck the wound, thus quickly abstracting the poison if any there, spit it out and forget that you were bitten by a dog, for depend on it this ends the matter there and then. You have gotten rid of the poison before it was distributed through the system. If on any part of the body you can't get at, get a friend to do it for you. Another method that is good is to at once wash the wound with water. Then apply the actual cautery, a piece of iron heated to white heat, not to the flesh, but hold it about half an inch from it. The intense heat causes but little pain and will destroy the bacilli of rabies to the depth of one-quarter of an inch. If carbolic or nitric acid or nitrate of silver is used, not five minutes should elapse, as unless properly performed inside of ten minutes it is not only useless but positively injurious as the poison of rabies will have been distributed throughout the system in this time.' "

The following appeared editorially in the St. Louis Republic of February 24, 1896: "The interview with Prof. Al. G. Eberhart, Superintendent of the St. Louis bench show, which was printed in the Sunday Post-Dispatch, in which Prof. Eberhart made the assertion that he had never seen a genuine case of hydrophobia, and that he believed that cases that resulted in what was diagnosed as rabies from the effects of dog bites were the result of imagination, has created much talk and considerable comment.

"Prof. Eberhart was called upon Saturday by a Post-Dispatch reporter, and asked if he could make his position as a disbeliever in the existence of the disease plainer than those reasons given in the short letter in last Sunday's Post-Dispatch.

" 'Yes,' said the Professor, 'I believe that I can. When I said that I had never seen a genuine case of hydrophobia I meant it. I have seen many dogs that were thought to be mad, but have never yet seen one that I Was thoroughly Satisfied was afflicted with rabies. If people would save the lives of dogs suspected of being thus affected, we might in time have an understanding of the subject by studying the sick dogs. But the first thing that happens to a dog when he shows signs of anything wrong is to immediately suspect it of being mad, and after that it is a very short time until its existence is ended by a bullet through the head, and the most valuable evidence in the case is destroyed. If the dog had been spared and confined, if he had been mad, the fact could have been easily determined, and he could be destroyed after the evidence was complete that it was a case of rabies without a shadow of doubt. But this course is seldom pursued, and the dog that has bitten any one in a spasm,it makes no matter what was the foundation for his pain, is immediately killed without regard to his value, and the bitten party left to suffer the torments of uncertainty as to whether he or she was inoculated with the virus of hydrophobia or not.