The man who wrote the following, that I found in a magazine called "Everything," and I wish I knew the author's name, so as to credit him properly, (and also to shake his hand, has a great brain, and full of common sense), so here's the article, well worth reading:

"For one time in six thousand years as far as history records one man suffered death from hydrophobia caused by a dog licking his hand. That is the story sent out and that is the story that has caused the world to talk and inspired newspapers to write terrible head lines about what to expect next. We do not believe that any man ever died from hydrophobia caused by a dog licking his hand. In truth, outside of those who make their money in that way there is grave doubt as to whether there is any such thing as hydrophobia outside the patient's mind. If a man can be hypnotized by another man and made to think that he is a dog; and bark and howl; or be made to think he is a millionaire or a dancing master, as people have been hypnotized, then a man can hypnotize himself, if he has the power of hypnotism, and it is not a far cry to believe that a man who has been bitten or a man who never saw a dog can hypnotize himself and make believe that he has rabies, so-called and so defined; and die in the throes of agony.

In a recent number of Dumb Animals, that sterling paper published by George T. Angel, a writer in some other newspaper was copied. His name was J. M. Greene, and his article was addressed to The Editor of the Tribune and is worth reading. We do not know anything about the Pasteur Institute he describes, but we do know that hydrophobia is essentially exaggerated. Mr. Greene said:

"Much has been written lately in the press regarding the great danger from the prevalence of 'hydrophobia' in New York city and elsewhere, and much more of the same terror will doubtless be written before the season is far advanced. Will you allow me a brief space for a few ideas on this subject?

"In the first place, if there be any one point absolutely certain and established, it is that the danger of getting the above disease has been greatly exaggerted, and that the great majority of alleged cases, of not only 'hydrophobia' in man, but also 'rabies' in the dog, have been cases of some other disease. It is also easy to see whence comes the influence causing this dread and delusion. The year following the opening of the first 'Pasteur Institute' in Paris, in 1885, the number of 'hydrophobia' patients treated in that city leaped to three thousand; previous to that, Paris could boast of only about thirty 'cases' a year! True 'hydrophobia' is a disease so rare that it is not considered worth mentioning in mortality reports. Well known medical investigators who have been searching for many years for authentic cases have failed to find one. Such are Dr. Lutaud, of Paris; Dr. Bell-Taylor, of England; Dr. Charles W. Dulles, of Philadelphia; Dr. E. C. Spitzke, of New York; Professor J. W. Hearn, of Philadelphia; Dr. Hiram Corson and Dr. Thomas Mayo. It is a notorious fact that, all over the world, societies and institutes that have the handling of thousands of vicious dogs, frequently biting their keepers, never hear of the disease.

"But spurious cases, caused by nervous dread, are common. As in the case of Mme. Chevalier, of Paris, instances have occurred from 'suggestion' alone, where the patient has not been bitten at all! Such cases, it is no injustice to say, are the product of the morbid fear disseminated and fostered by 'Pasteur Institutes.' These concerns do a great business throughout the world. But on what basis? I have before me a record, carefully revised from year to year, which shows that up to January 1st of the present year 1,857 deaths from 'hydrophobia' have occurred among patients who have undergone the 'Pasteur treatment' according to directions, in many of which cases the animals which did the biting remained alive and well! In this record names, dates, and other particulars are given.

"The 'Pasteur method' depends for its commercial success on the most colossal pretensions and distortion of facts and figures. Among its 'patients' are numbered those bitten by 'rabid' dogs and those bitten by animals only 'suspected!'. Again, dogs are often 'found' to have been rabid by postmortem examination and by inoculating other animals with portions of their brain or spinal cord, both of which methods are denounced as inconclusive by leading scientists, such as Dr. Colin, of Alfort, and Professor Fleming, of England. Many substances, such as common soap, when inoculated into animals, produce meningitis, the symptoms of which are almost identical with those of rabies; Surgeon-General Sternberg has even produced these symptoms in rabbits with his own saliva! Moreover, it is well known that, with no treatment whatever, from 90 to 9 5 per cent of those bitten by actually 'rabid' dogs recover. All these facts tend to show that the statistics of the 'Pasteur Institutes' are absolutely farcical, and as a consequence they are ridiculed by every leading scientific authority who has carefully investigated, and who charge them with actually causing 'hydrophobia' in many patients by their inoculations with diseased animal matter. This pernicious and most dangerous principle of deliberately introducing into the life-current septic matter from 'rabid' animals, has without doubt been the cause of numerous cases of 'paralytic rabies' or 'laboratory rabies' in patients. The late Dr. Michel Peter, the greatest clinical expert in France, said: 'Pasteur does not prevent hydrophobia; he gives it.' This opinion was indorsed by such scientific leaders as Dr. T. M. Dalon, F. R. C. S., Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, Dr. Charles Bell-Taylor, Surgeon-General Charles Gordon, of England, and Professor Von Frish, of Vienna. The celebrated Dr. A. Lutaud, editor-in-chief of the 'Journal de Medecine de Paris,' said in that journal on September 16, 1899, referring to the savants at the Pasteur Institute: "They have not diminished the mortality; they have augmented it, in causing the 'madness of laboratories,' very often fatal with which they have inoculated a great number of individuals.'

"As the danger of 'hydrophobia' in man has been viciously exaggerated, so has been that of 'rabies' in the dog. It is safe to say that at least 99 out of every 100 alleged cases are cases of ill treatment, heat prostration, fits, thirst, stomach trouble, epilepsy, or similar affections. A dog with true 'rabies' does not froth at the mouth; neither does he go out of his way to attack, but gives every indication of wishing to be let alone. These facts, however, have no weight with some people, whose arrogance and bigotry regarding our relation to the 'lower animals' pass comprehension. One swears the life of one child is 'worth all the dogs in the world;' another would have all the dogs in the state muzzled on account of one case of alleged 'rabies.' Man spends his life in abusing and slaughtering his fellow-creatures; but, for-sooth, if some unfortunate member of that species most faithful to man, wild with ill treatment, or the disease above mentioned, rushes he knows not whither, beset by imaginary foes, then Man joyfully seizes the opportunity to attack the sufferer with every convenient weapon, as in former days, under like conditions, he treated his fellow-man! And then, if bitten by his victim, he resorts to an 'institute,' founded on and perpetuating the horrible sufferings of artificially maddened creatures (a supply of which, in a state of madness is constantly kept on hand, whether 'used' or not), whose poisoned tissues he absorbs into his circulation as an antidote. Is not this a specacle for Gods and men?"

There is no doubt in this world but what two-thirds of the National Belly-aching is the direct result of imagination. There is no doubt but what if a man can hypnotize another man, if he has the power he can and does hypnotize himself, and if this be true, and it is an accepted truth, then all some nerve-wracked fellow has to do who insists that something is the matter with him, is to imagine that a dog bit him and then keep following up the idea and finally die like a dog might die with Tabies. That is the long and the short of the matter' in this world where Wall-Eyed Science is on the make and where men must earn their bread.

The man who owns pets and loves his pets is a bigger man and a better man than the narrow souled and incomprehensible creature who is too stingy to feed them or too mean to want to give them a place after God Almighty formed and fashioned them and sent them here for some good purpose.

Hydrophobia is a dream - a self hypnotic state aided and abated by those who want to cash the coin. That's all.

I hope my readers have read all of the many pages devoted to hydrophobia, (and these pages could have been put in this book-as advertisements at $35.00 per page just as well,) as there was no trouble in getting the ads - but this book was written to do good to dogs - and their owners - much in preference to the profits in coin - because it is - has been - and will be my highest aim in life, to do good to dogs - the best, truest, and faithful friend we have - four legs instead of two.