Re: Adult dog eats own feces (I'm not kidding) HELP


"Melinda Shore" <shore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <KO4oj.65608$_m.63880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
tiny dancer <tinydancer357@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To me it appears this poster is not posting from the U.S./North America,
therefore rabies is probably not an issue.

If you were actually interested in dogs, there's some wee
chance you'd know that rabies has been eradicated in
England.

And applying our magic tiny logic, England is now
disease-free! Yay, England!
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - shore@xxxxxxxxx

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

RABIES OR HYDROPHOBIA

According to Farmers Bulletin No. 449 of the U.S. Agricultural Department,
no one can catch rabies from an animal that bites them unless the animal has
the disease. Furthermore, less than 15% of those bitten by a rabid dog and
not treated will generally contract the disease. This is very different from
the hullaballoo generally raised by the self-styled 'regular' doctors, and
especially by health officers, over every dog bite they hear of. In an
official publication such as the Farmers' Bulletin, this is quite an
admission; unofficial and anti-vivisection sources of information generally
place the percentage much closer to zero. Bulletin No. 65 of the U.S.
Hygienic Laboratory at Washington also admits that those who die after
treatment die earlier than untreated cases! It says:

"Treatment. Nitsch has pointed out that in a large series of cases the
deaths in spite of the Pasteur treatment occurred on average earlier than in
untreated persons (64.5 to 90 days).

There is some reason to believe that the rabies virus as it occurs in nature
varies much in virulence, and that this is in some way related to the
geographic distribution." (p.21)

The New York Anti-Vivisection Society has published several pamphlets from
which the following information is taken. They state that rabies is a very
rare disease except where dogs have been injected with rabies serum, in
which case it very often develops. According to their views, a dog unable to
find green grass to eat in winter is very apt to develop worms or maggots,
or both, in the intestines, often perforating them, and driving the dog
frantic. In this condition the dog will bite at everything blindly, foam at
the mouth, and run amuck generally, refusing water and seeking solitude.
Hay, grass, hide or bones fed to the dogs will cause the irritable
conditions to disappear.There are no real grounds for supposing that
madness, as found in humans, occurs in dogs, nor can it be proved that the
bite from a distracted animal can produce madness in anyone bitten. Further,
so-called rabies can be shown to be the direct result of serum injections.
Competent authorities claim that in so-called 'real' rabies, a dog never
foams at the mouth, but has a small amount of brownish stringy discharge
hanging from the lips, and the eyes have a fiery glare. In epilepsy, the dog
trembles, his jaws champ violently and his voluntary muscles are powerfully
convulsed; there is a copious discharge of white frothy saliva; he utters
sharp cries and when recovering from the fit, the eyes are dull and stupid.
This might be due to fright, or heat in summer. They quote doctors of
unquestionable authority as saying that no rabic germ has been found; and
that finding so-called Negri bodies is no proof that the dog has rabies; as
"they are found when all symptoms are absent and when all are present, so
the diagnosis of rabies is pure guesswork", according to J.A. McLaughlin,
D.V.S.

Even by A.M.A. standards no successful serum can be made without the right
germ, so this might account for the large number of deaths that follow the
Pasteur treatment.

Some doctors say the bite of a rabid dog is absolutely harmless to man. C.
W. Dulles, M.D., a famous authority on dog diseases and hydrophobia who
looked up the records in many cities, says over a million dogs and cats were
handled by dog catchers in 14 years, with many thousands of bites, but no
treatment - and not a single case of hydrophobia appeared in these cases. He
and other doctors had posted for years standing offers of $100.00 to
$1,000.00 for a genuine case of dog hydrophobia and had no claimants, though
thousands of dogs were being killed yearly because of scares; one place
claiming that 92% of those killed in one year had hydrophobia!

These doctors say chaining or muzzling a dog that has always been free is
apt to cause the very irritability we want to avoid.

PASTEUR'S TREATMENT CAUSES RABIES

In man, they say the death rate in France in cases of so-called rabies is 19
per 100 - the highest in the civilized world - and the same as before the
Pasteur Institute was established, and cases of hydrophobia have enormously
increased, while just across the Rhine in Germany, hydrophobia is almost
unknown. The year before Pasteur started his treatments there were four
deaths from hydrophobia in Paris, the year after there were 22! Not only
France as a whole, but each department of France, and in fact every country
that has allowed the Pasteur 'treatment' to be introduced, have all shown a
sharp increase in the number of deaths from hydrophobia after such
introduction!

In England there were several Pasteur Institutes doing a thriving business
prior to 1902, when a commission was appointed to investigate rabies and the
serum treatment, and the Institutes were abolished. They have had no
hydrophobia since.They claim that over 3,000 people died in England before
1902 after being bitten by dogs and then taking the Pasteur treatment, while
more recently the London Hospital treated 2,668 persons bitten by dogs
without using the Pasteur treatment, and none of them developed hydrophobia!
While these are not complete figures for England, there are nearly 6,000
cases of dog bite treated in institutions; and of these only those who had
taken the Pasteur treatment died. Why not try something different? And there
has never been a case of hydrophobia in Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark,
Holland, Belgium, New Zealand and Australia, because those countries will
not tolerate a Pasteur Institute within their borders. They say the Pasteur
treatment is very often the cause of rabies, is always dangerous, sometimes
even murderous, and is never beneficial. J. W. Dodson, M.D., of Brockport,
N.Y., wrote years ago: "If people would only think for themselves and not
blindly follow the agitator or grafter we would soon be relieved of this
pest, rabies."



Redman




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