"At Newark, scientific tests were made, which showed that neither the persons dying of alleged 'rabies,' the dogs that had bitten them, nor the children reputed to have been saved by the Pasteur treatment, had been afflicted with any such disease.

"Prof. Briggs, of the Carnegie Laboratory, and Law, of Cornell, inoc-culated dogs with material from the deceased pound-keeper, Neall, as I did from the deceased Hertlin, and in every case with negative results.

"The veterinarian, Runge, kept the clogs bitten by the suspected animal in quarantine for four months and then discharged them as not 'rabid.' Some children bitten by the same dog and not treated by Pasteur are today known to me. They are as free from disease as those who were subjected to the treatment.

"Scores of observations might be added in bringing the review up to date, all of which tend to show that the cases reported, including the eight Baltimore victims, were not sufferers of any trumped-up malady as 'rabies.' From what I have learned of those of the latter who died after receiving the Pasteur treatment, I should say they were poisoned, either by the inoculations or by ptomaines from decayed teeth of the suspicious canine that bit them. Of the others who are believed to" have been saved from the dreadful disease by Gibier's hand, I am satisfied that in biting them the animal didn't happen to get any of the poisonous saliva in the wound or that their systems were not susceptible to the dangers of the Pasteur inoculation. Science has proved that what is harmless to some persons may be deadly to others. The followers of the Pasteur treatment, however, disregard this established fact.

"In Pennsylvania a number of persons were needlessly rendered unhappy by a sensational report to the effect that 'rabies' had become epidemic in one of the State's prosperous villages. A large number of school children and several adults had been infected by dog bites. After several of the children and two of the adults had died, the dog - which was a pet - was located. The animal was found to be suffering from epileptic fits, induced by his having swallowed a chicken bone. The deaths caused by the bites were undoubtedly due to the same cause as I have explained in regard to the Baltimore victims.

"As a whole, in all the cases reported as 'lyssa,' 'rabies' or 'hydrophobia,' it was either not shown that the subject had been bitten by a dog at all, or that the dog had been mad in the Pasteur sense. Indeed, the errors that have been committed in this direction would be amusing were it not for other and tragical attendant features.

"Let it be inoculated in the public mind that the sensational symptoms which tradition assigns to rabies are fictitious, and, like the fear of water which has given a name to the malcondition, never occurs after the bite of a dog; that it is no more possible for a dog to inoculate a man with the tendency to bark and run on all faurs than it is for a man to inoculate a dog with the faculty of speech and an upright gait - then what has been drifting through medical and newspaper literature as rabies would disappear.

"If once thoroughly understood by the people at large, that superstitious fear and expectant attention may not alone develop serious nervous symptoms, but, also actually cause death, many who assume themselves threatened with some rational ill effects, such as ptomaine poisoning after a dog bite, would cultivate that healthful self-control, which was so happily inoculated by Dr. James Gordon Spencer in the Watertown case, and Dr. Exton in the Arlington case."

Herewith is reproduced Hugh Dalziel's entire treatise on this subject. He is a noted authority in England and the author of several books on dogs and horses. You will see that he believes in hydrophobia, so you have now both sides of the question to read, ponder over and digest so as to get a full and complete idea of the matter in all its bearings;

"Although the symptoms of this terrible disease have long been recognized and clearly stated by scentfic men, there is still, unfortunately, great ignorance regarding it evinced by the general public - an ignorance fraught with much danger to man, and the cause of much cruelty and death, often most brutally inflicted on hundreds of poor dogs, more innocent of madness than the frantic crowd who do their best to hunt the poor frightened, nervous beast into that state.

"I have found the prevailing idea of a mad dog to be that of an animal with glaring, bloodshot eyes, covered with the froth of his excitement, and rushing wildly hither and thither in search of man or beast to bite; whilst a dog lost in a crowded town, and excitedly nervous finding himself out of his knowledge, is often enough to raise the croy of 'a mad dog,' and with many a fit is a sign positive, and the occurrence of epilepsy has been the incitement to canine murder in numberless instances. .

"It is quite true that the disease produces great nervous excitement, and creates a spirit of unrest - it also, in the first stages of its existence, increases the flow of saliva - but not the emission of froth from the mouth, which is produced by the champing of the jaws in an epileptic fit; in rabies, the discharge becomes thick and glutinous, and the sufferer may be seen pawing at his mouth to clear it, as though choked with a bone. The disposition of the dog is often entirely changed, and one frolicsome and fond of being caressed may become sullen and shy, retiring into some quiet lair, generally selecting some dark corner, behind a large object. If out on the march he will rather evade man than seek company; and although biting furiously at all and everything that obstructs his passage, rarely going out of his way to seek an enemy. He evinces a strong desire to tear and gnaw everything he gets hold of; nothing comes amiss to him, and the disposition to bite is shown by his frequently snapping at imaginary objects in the air. Contrary to the generally received opinion, and condemnatory of the name hydrophobia, erroneously given to this disease in the dog, the poor sufferer laps water greedily as long as his power over the muscles is retained, and when that is gone, plunges his head into the water to cool his parched and burning mouth. In the latter stages, the dog may have convulsions, but fits are not a premonitory, nor an early symptom, and their presence, independent of more certain evidence of rabies, should never give rise to fear.