The Oregon daily journal., June 24, 1908, Page 3, Image 3

THl3 OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,' PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, J908:
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Treatment of Disease "Which
':' Is Spreading Because of
Carelessness of Persons
Owning IJnmuzzlcd Dogs
, Methods of Cure. '
By FREDERIC 3.' HASKIX.
(Copyright, 190, by Fredeno J. Haskln.)
Washington, D. C, 1 June 24.
vim jut; wui tuuio iuo uvg ua;
when" the dog star Slrius rules , the
hearens for 40 days, and according
to a world-old belief, dogs .with
raHaa vII run wild In tha land This
superstition with many, others dear
to the heart of many long, since has
been exploded by science, for Slrius
has no more to do with hydrophobia
tbaa has any other bright and friend
ly member of the sidereal world. The
American Society for the Prerentlon
of Cruelty to Animals, In making a
case for the homeless " dogs,, the
i pariahs of the animal world who
are put to death in greater numbers
In the summer declares that there
la no greater prevalence of rabies In
summer than In winter. Yet the fear
remains and precaution is absolute
ly necessary in guarding against the
spread of this most terrible of all
diseases, a precaution that must be
practiced assiduously until this en
lightened American people learn that
the disease ; ; can "; be ''Atfectnally
stamped out In one "way by mussl
lng dogs for-aereral years-v'
menevtr the sutrsstion m"u3 that
doss be tnuxxled, or whenever a pro
StsssIys' city enacts an ordinance to
that effect. torm of protest goes up
from dog owners and dog lovers over
the inhumanity of the practice. There
is only one Question with which to meet
this: Is It not better that members of
the dog family be given this slight dis
comfort in, the few hours they are on
the street, than have three or. four lit
tle children or grown persons die In the
moet horrible convulsion! known In the
annals of human eufferlngT The ma
jority of European countries have al
rrtoat stamped out rabies by legislating
In an intelligent manner against it.
They require the killing of suspected
-dogs and the munlingof those that ap
pear on the streets. Prussia began this
work in 1871 and since 1881 no case has
been known in Berlin, and the rest of
the country la now free from It. -Hol
land has had no oases since ; i87. ex
cept such as occur along the Belgian
border.'
Great Britain hss had the same senti
mental kind of folk to contend with m
the enforcement of rouisllng ordinances
as certain American sections have had.
That country ordered -dogs muzxled in
1889, and within three years the disease
had almost disappeared. Then the de
termined opposition of misguided senti
mentalists prevailed and the law was
set Aside. The disease spread in tha
next three years In an alarming fashion.
Then muzzles again became the fashion
and since lbW Great Britain has been
free from disease, and England proper
with Australia fit eg not know the mean
ing of rabies among human beings. Bo
much for ... intelligent handling of a
situation. :
' locating . Disease. . ' .
.It is to such a plane of intelligence
and cooperation that the United States
government, through Its bureau of ani
mal industry of the department of agri
culture, hopes to some day lift the 80,
000,000 people of the nation. Certain
districts In this country have always
been absolutely free from the Infec
tion, and others have been known to
have cases for years. The largest area,
according to a careful , census made
under the direction of the American
Kennel club, ilea about 50 miles south
and wast of Philadelphia.' Rabies be
gan In a Philadelphia suburb in 1870
and In to years it spread out to such an
extent that 200 cases were reported,
half of these being confined to si spe
cial places. A report before the Ameri
can Veterinary Medical association last
year showed - that hardly a county tin
Pennsylvania was then free from raoie,
and last summer it was necessary In
Chester county to destroy 184 dogs, 25
cows and 10 horses, an expensive affair
to say nothing of the danger.
. American Kennel dab.
When the American Kennel club
made Its investigation 10 years ' ago.
Us specialists reported that rabies was
unknown' in the New England states
north of Massachusetts "and Rhode Isl
and, with occasional Isolated cases tn
Massachusetts and Connecticut, and
very rare cases in New York and New
Jersey: that Pennsylvania was badly
Infected only In certain districts, not
ably about Philadelphia; that there was
little proof of Its existence - in the
southern states or In the majority of
the states east of the Mississippi; that
In Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska,-
Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas
there had been less than 100 all told,
and that .the disease was entirely un
known west ef-the Rockies.
Whether this report was Inaccur
ate or whether the disease has become
mere - widely spread is not stated by
the scientists of more recent Investiga
tion 'Yet the latest report from the
department of agriculture says conclu
sively: "There is abundant evidence to
warrant the statement that not a stn-
Sle state is free . from the disease.
peolflo Instances of the spread of
rabies are cited, as. In 1906. a severe
outbreak In Waterbury, Conn., . where-
175 dogs were destroyed ana severu
persons hurried to the Pasteur hospi
tal for treatment: in 190B-S, an outbreak
In Jacksonville, Fla., when 1.200dogs
were destroyed, and of 13 persons bit
ten three died Of hydrophobia; in In
diana the state veterinarian reports
more trouble from - rabies than - from
any other Infectious disease; Norfolk.
Vs., hss had the disease among, its
dogs and cattle, and among a few
people.-" for five - years; and Charles
ton, W. Vs., recently reported an out
break. , . ; , .
,., Parish Dogs.
The District of Columbia, knowing
that the eyes of all the nation are
turned that way In search of a good
example, has during the present year
waged persistent warfare on the pariah
dogs, te "great unwashed" of the dog
world. The law requires the licensing
of doRS and the upper tendom of dor
dom goes about with tags on its col
lars, and often with leashes safely held
In the hands of careful owners, but
from Vlrrinla and Maryland waifs and
strays, members of the tramp kingdom,
smell from afar the Incense from thou--sands
of kitchens and stray Into Wash
ington, to beoome the legal prey of
the vigilant dog catcher. The dog catch
er has been overworked so far, and
since January 80 over J,i60 of these
tramp i dogs nave been a put to death.
Of these 86 were found to have rabies,
the bodies of suspects having been sent
to the bureau of animal Industry for
laboratory examination. Because - the
epidemic has increased and human life
been greatly endangered, the authorities
ars ordering the muxzling of all li
censed dogs and the Immediate exe
cution of all unlicensed ones. The
president has taken the matter up and
this has brought an added interest to
the situation. ,
There Is a - widely popular- belief
among many medlcoes and laymen that
death from hydrophobia Is due,, not to
the malignancy, of the disease, but to
auto-suggestion on the part of the pa
tient, whose fear of so horrible a death
eventually brings about such a death as
he had fancied. A new name coined to
fit this death Is hydrophobophobla. The
rfonth of William .Marsh, the wealthy
Brooklyn man, has- been attributed to
auto-suggestion by the followers of this
school because at his request physicians
had told him just what was the nature
of his illness. In contradistinction to
this comes evidence from the other side.
A few days after the death of Marsh,
Captain Edward Rabey also died In
New York, his physicians pronouncing
the case a decided one of rabies, and
the point is this he died without ever
knowing what his trouble was.
The primary preventive ' measure
against rabies lies In the muzzling of
dogs that the disease may-not spread
and Infect other members of the animal
kingdom, and prevention after infection
lies in the treatment riven at Pasteur
institutes. There the disease Is fought
and - conquered by inoculations of the
very virus that is poisoning the patient.
Pasteur, as Dumas said years " when
decorating him with a great order, has
"taught how a mortal poison may be
come an . Innocent preservative." It
took Pasteur many, years to prove this.
for It was the most dangerous of all
his experiments. Where baclll of other
diseases could be cultivated in rabbit
or chicken broth, the baclll of Tables
had to be cultivated In living animals,
and he and his assistants worked with
wild eyed, ferocious beasts until they
found the prevention and cure of the
dread disease. He' found that as cer
tain animals were Inoculated In suc
cession with the virus, the poison grew
weaker, but that after a certain number
of ' Inoculations among rabbits the
strength' of the poison increased to a
certain point, and then remained con
stant and he could procure a "fixed
virus." - : -
. This virus Is stxjngest In the spinal
cord of infected animals, so In Pasteur
institutes, now located wherever rabies
is prevalent the civilised world over.
two rabbits are - painlessly inoculated
every day, and eight days later, when
rabies has developed,, are painlessly
killed and the spinal cord extracted.
This cord Is hung to dry in a bottle that
has caustlo potash placed in. the bot
tom, and from this cord the gray liquid
for Inoculating patients is made.
After he bad upset' the theory of spon
taneous life and established the vitality
of ferments, Pasteur turned to the study
of rabies. When he proved the truth of
his work by successful experiments in
1884 he opened a new door of hope to
the world, it was in July, 1886, In
Paris, that he first tried his powerful
virus en human beings, three peasants
having come all the way from Alsace to
ask that the experiments he had made
on the 20 dogs the year before be made
on one of their number who had been
bitten. This was a success, anil hi 1 -than
a year he had sucnessfusiy ti-n-
688 cases, and ha.l changed t.'ie !. ,
rate of rabteg In tMlm frum one in .
to one in 170.
At Pasteur's Paris Institutions
80,000 patients have been t rented .
then, many from all parte of the w.ir;.!.
Including Russian peasants suffering
from the most malignant forms, th.u
?lven bv mad wolves. New York had th
lrst pasteur Institute In America,
opening it earlv in 1880, Chicaco opn l
one In July of that year, Since thri
others have been established in Balti
more, Richmond, Atlanta, ptttaburg. Arm
Arbor, 8t, Paul, New Orleans, fit. Lout
and Houston, and the percentage of
mortality among the patients in thesa
both human and animals has been,
gratlfyingly small.
greets
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This applies to our entire stock
; of Carpets and Rugs until our
Which bur MR. CHAS. JENNING
bought of Alexander Smith &
Sons on the fourth of last May.
This is the largest purchase ever
made by a Portland house. We
propose to make a clean sweep of
the present stock. This week is
the time to JFurnish up your hopie
or office for we are giving unysual
bargains in Buffets, China Closets, PARLOR, LIBRARY and BEDROOM FURNITURE
Home of Good Furniture Prices Always Lowest
MORRISON AND SECOND STREETS
$82,000 Shipment Arrives
H; JENNING & SONS
VjSSSSS.
Strictly
One Price,
; Every
Article
Marked in
Plain
Figures
leorganizatioo Sale Opens Thursday; Jime 25, 9 A. M.
OUTLET GLiOf HINQ CO., Inc.
first and Mor
rison STREETS
7B
Stockholders Decide to Unload Remaining Stock At Once
ThoussLnd Do!laLS?s Worth
CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS, PANTS AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
73
Come Early,
As We
Expect a
Big
Crowd
Thursday
ye lost many thousand dollars during our RECEIVER SALE. The public was the gainer by many thousand dollars. We are glad that the public got the benefit, as they so seldom do in these
SO-CALLED SALES. . We take our loss gracefully and hope to regain our loss at some future time, f" We have abundant of faith in Portland and have extended our lease and will continue in the
same quarters that were specially built for us, and shall cater in the future to the masses, not the classes, , We want to make this the Bargain Home of the workingman. j
: THE GIGANTIC 'CLOSINQ-OUt SALE
ye are going to close out $75,pOO.OO worth of high-grade Clothing regardless of cost, make and value. We want to begin all over again with a new and up-to-date stock for the next season. The
receiver has turned over to us a !nice, clean and complete line, but with it many broken lines; all must goat olate at
j;:;-- . 35, 4Sl$;N.;E DpLL-R; . ., . -V
, ; ; ! - we, pledge you our word of honor that evry article listed below will be on sale
50c : President Sus
penders .
23c .
75c Four-ln-Hand an-
1).
25c Black and Brown
Hose
8c
15c Whits Hem
stitched .hdltf.
3c
Here is one
you can't
pass up
A strictly all-wool
suit, well made with
serge . linings," union
made, worth $18, on
sale
$7,75
See it. in our window.
We Have Opened Our Windows See Them Choose From Them
We carry Sweet Orr's union made pants, ranging in price from $1.50 up to $10.00, at , w A r- m t-sj
v vv...- H A 1 f.TS1
TJi. I T , ' I All the latest and newest shapes, ranging in price from $1.00 J W I A J W WJ im
rlaiS: iiais I up to $5.00. at just TiDTn) TTTNTC'
Mens Shoes T. !t. jrMMjh
You need only come to our rindow display to be thoroughly convinced that we have placed on sale the greatest and ;
best ine of high-grade, hand-tailored Men's Sufcs at One Half price and less. .
en's Suits-HALF- PRICEMen's Suits
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How's this?
Can you
beat it?
A strictly all-wool
black chevioft. hand-
somely finished; Is
worth, $15; on sale
$5.85
Look for it in our
; ; rpnowa.
75c working shirt,
with coUar attached
29c
75c Balbriggan o n- I
derwear; all colors I
19c
$2 Pongee shirts,
fancy and plain
85c
Boys' 55c suspenders, !
. all colors, now
8c
QITIPQ in all styles,, including, knickcrbockcr pants, belt coats, OAf 1? IDBIn
&J 1 k akJl 1 l) patch pockets, handsomely tailored, reduced to exactly iOilLiblP FJiHj
Boys' 35c Overalls, fl n
strong and well-made klLj
LOOK AT OUR WINDOW DISPLAY, PICK- OUT ANYTHING YOU LIKE AND ASK THE CLERK. IT WILL BE SHOWN YOU JUST AS YOU SEE IT III VIUDOW.
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