RABID ANIMALS ««f tl» Oldc* Of UM in Um World ih to. to MM, W • of tba |*m la the body m4 Um explanation of the pe culiar ijnptniTu; we know how lo fht protection, ud above all, we know how it aajr bo (radicated. Rabiee la ona of the oHrnt of ree ogniied Amhm; Ha peculiar «ymp t«m» and the iaerttai ly fatal oot mm> Ha to always mrule a powerful impreeaion on the human imagine tton. Medical literature on the id ■ Ject extendi well beyond the Chrtotlan era and la general literature there are many reference! hi ancient writ tnfi. "Hmfc is mi •xctlltnt dticrip the written by Apuleiaa in the eec end centary la hk Mitimiiphuli, and there are aid to he refaiwn la Virsffl. Orid la of the teiii i ■ ii» 1 wmm hmwi cmotn, aad taftoenxa, if be recognised oaly with dlffl-j During the hundred* of jwn la wfclfh ftln Was HMfBlnd M I MP .atition Had collected •round it and raminti at thia ignorance still re autn in the popular mind. We all know persona who haUar« that a dog'* hHa la dangeroaa only In that aaaaon of the year whan Ririus, the Doc Star, la in the ascendant. I have not seen a "mad-stone" in aeveral year*, but formerly I have been permitted to (umme fragments of pumice atone, aeveral pebhir* and one bit of pottery from a broken domestic veaael all of which were treasured for their crra tive power. One nncient th»rap.'U" ic belief alone ita idi ths teat of modern experimental pr» ": that ii the value of cauterization It w*i the ancient custom to apply a rod hot Ton to the frtah wound and many per*on» were raved thereby. If dona rarly thia la •till food practice although nitric acid 'a arbetituted for the red hot metal. In common with moat other dia ca:<«a. accurate fcientific knowledge begin* with the time of Parte ur. Paa teur never saecaadad In finding the Infecting agent—thia waa laaariad far Megrl—but he did begin scientific study of the dif eaae and found an ef ficient prophylaxi* whi.-S savee about f par oent of expoaad Mr> *u. Bi.ef I.", this la a \ accine made from the apml cords ef rabbit* which hav« hi-en infected »ith a very rarid form •f the diaeaae. The cord. *'/ »l ur.uated by drying and by passage through manr generations of rabbits. Ihi histotry of the trial jf hi* vaccine, by Pasteur, forms one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of medicine. The vaccine la still used with only slight modificatlona. In North Carolina we uae the original Faataur strain of virus and the chief Modification la a somewhat larger number of Injection*. Orrm Dtanrtrd by Negri The rcrm of rabies discovered by Negri U generally Mimd to In i pretaaoan. Th» examination of a ra M animal can bo mad. rapidly by etelnfcg * smear-preparation of a Ml portion of Hratn tiara* and the raaad or oral organism shows plain ly ami distinctly in the nerve eaOa. A Ml which contains thaaa organ laaaa will invariably raprodvea tha Mmmm If a portion of h Is injected into another animal. On entering the body, tha gal la causae no, inflamma tion and aa far aa we know H la not i ai i lad by tha blood stream, bat it 4oae find a small nerve tiaras and travels through tha body hfcui a tis ane. It appartntly at once begins to asnltlply la this tleeae bag caaaae no ayasptomi until M reaches the brain, whera It an tars and deetroya the amm sella. It amy have t»kcn weeks or li ar Tha to the Mlhnrjr and th« Infection b excreted In •aliya. It i» bjr mrana of tW lation with the infectioua wlln, that ia by bitinir, that tha diaeaae la apraad from animal to animal or from animal to man. All mam ma la, including man are auaceptible. Tha dog la no more raacaptibl* than la tha aheep, or tha cow, or man, but tha do* and hia relative*. tha fox and tha wolf, whan thair hraina ara diaeaa >>d commonly exhibit tha inattort of biting. Tha eat only occaaionally nhowa thia symptom aa doaa tha bona. Tha rabid cow may ha joat aa balMger ant aa tha dog, hat har inatinct la to honk or bott, rat har than to hHa. Oth er animala exhibit varying ijmptoaa of a diaaaaad brain, bat H ia iillom that thay want to brta. Tha problem of tka apraad of rabiee ia therefore atmoat wholly tuafliied to the *>« and It ia joat thii which haa aaaieet aecaaa to bataga. If we dofi from biting animala we could eradicate the Ml TMavy AMM The statement just mads to sot to* sd mi Itonry slone. Milw has ac tually been exterminated la Denmark, Norway and Sweden tor SO year*. Be fore the ww tt wii unknown to Ger many except alone the border». and in England there was no rabies for over SO years until it was reintroduc ed by returning soldiers who brought bark infected dogs from Prance. It has now again been eradicated in j England. In Australia there has never been a case of rabies, for that | continent has always had a quarantine law for dogs and each animal is con fined at the port of entry for sis months before K can be delivered to the owner. The contrast of these countries with the United States is not to our credit. Here only sporadic and ineffectual at tempts at control have ever been made and for the last decade the disease has been on the increase in the great er part of our country. This to es pecially true for our own section. The states with the worst records are North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia, Florida, Alabama and Mtosisaippi. Virginia's record to coasiderably hat ter than that of North Carolina and South Carolina, and Georgia's to a trifle worse. The Increase in North Carolina may be illustrated by a comparison of the record of 1009 (the first year of com plete statistics) with that of 1025. la 1909 there were 83 rabid animals ex amined at the State Laboratory of Hygiene, in 1025, SIS. In 1900, 1S7 persons were treated for bites of rabid animals, in 1925 1850. The interven ing years show an increase with al most annual regularity. La jit year we bad four, possibly five human deaths from raMes in North Carolina. This number la in niimificant if compared with the death from tuberculosis, bat if tt is true that each should have, and could have, been prevented, they are not ■ credit to oar civilisation. We must aleo charge against this disease an enormous leas of cattle, bogs, shoepe IY|() tfeOTMM, but MO IffUI'ttt itltiltid are kept of these deaths. In the far west, rabies has boon comparatively rare until within the last few years. In a stock raising < ountry, the predatory dog is new •hown murk ssercy, bat with the de cline of stock-raising on the unlimited range, dogs have increased. In the Rocky Mountain section the dUease Is said to be now prevalent among the wild coyotes, and rabies win probably esist ta that region until these wild animals are exterminated. We have seen that certain Euro — — But on the moantaina above ua it ac cumulated to • pwt«r depth, and re ma in»«t ddirioaa marmalade. Ona of ay friwida manufacture* it in tha aearby towa of Yoahida; and it U quita pop ular among foreigner*. Wa have apptoa in Japan prac tically all tha yaar. Tha Aaieriran | variatiaa do well in northern J* and to Korea. Evan tha Ban Darlil variety haa persisted la Ba that ara hetur ■ of yea Mr. B. r. ■ton of the alary ahoot tha part who waa abia whtto blindfolded! to mum tha rariwi rarletiee of ap-| Ptoa by teeth*. Whan It tha Ban Darfa tha piece of cork ta prineuatad tha cork U ha a Baa Da-rial bat of a specially food kind. Uwajtma, Ehima Kan, Japan. February C, IMC. J. W. PRANK. CONSIDERS WOMAN'S DRESS SCANDALOUS Banriu Highlander* Threat en Fore* Against "Shame less And Immoral Foceign •» era. Berlin, Feb. 13 —Denouncing wo-! m*n'» dm*, modern dance* and American or French origin and other "depraved** importation*, 20,000 bare kneed, m uvula** member* of the United t.eaffiie* 0f Bavarian High landers, dressed in brilliant kilt* with feathered tuft* in ths ceremonial hats, threaten to use force unless the Bavarian diet passes a law prohibit ing the "pollution of innocent Bavar ian maidens by shameless and immor al foreigners" who visit the High The leagues' resolution to the diet declares that "any woman so braced and depraved as to display herself hi public in vulgar and lustful apparel deserves to be punished with impris onment. A "respectable maiden,'* the resolu tion adds, "has her clothe* well but toned up to the neck instead of gad ding about with nothing above and below. We hne 20,000 muscular members resdy to eradicate these dis gusting customs and to eliminate the prevailing scandal by mean* of sound thrashings." The "scandalous bathing of tourists of both sexes" in the mountain lakes also comes in for criticism. The reso lution says that public bathing should bo rsesrved for days preceding Impor tant Catholic holidays. But on eQkr days those who have acquiref the "silly bathing habit" art warned to confine It to their bath tuba. D*t Gate fchry a# (MO New Yarfc, M. II.—BiMj, who Mad* hta mtm Mat at tha lute •O* of fir*