The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

May, 1927 The Health Bulletin 27
communicate the disease. The dos may
continue to eat and drink. But it soon
becomes restless, frequently changes
position, scratches in the earth, apparently
harkens to imagined noises,
crouches in wait for invisible enemies,
is possessed of hallucinations, jumps,
snaps at the air, becomes increasingly
active, no longer knows its master, suffers
spells of fury and has an evil look.
If shut up, it bites furiously at the
bars and splinters the wood of its
cage. If at large, it seizes on carpets
and articles of clothing, tears them to
shreds, swallowing some of the fragments
;
breaks, tears and attempts to
eat everything in its way. scratches the
sore made by the dog which inoculated
the disease, and violently bites away
the skin in this region.
"At other times, contraction of the
pharynx may prevent drinking ;
efforts
made to drink, while in this condition,
simulate those when a bone is lodged
in the dog's throat. Its bark is a
peculiar hoarse howl followed by a
sharper cry ; this is a sure sign.
"At the beginning of this period of
excitation, if the dog has not been
chained, it will try to escape, to leave
its master and persons to whom the
animal has been affectionate. With its
tail hanging low, its jaw covered with
frothy saliva which it cannot swallow,
the dog runs straight away without a
stop, and never scents objects in its
path. If it meets another dog, even of
much larger size, it approaches without
hesitation, then suddenly without a
cry, in a surprise attack, leaps usually
at the neck or head of the other dog,
and with apparently no animosity proceeds
on its way. If it approaches a
horse, cattle or even a man it leaps
without a trace of hesitation and bites
cruelly but never tarries.
"It continues its course of destruction
through rain and cold, without
food, to finally die, after traversing
some 10, 20, 30 miles, in some ditch or
isolated corner, when overcome by
paralysis. Such a stray dog constitutes
a real terror. Many dogs, infected by
the rabid animal, will set out to cause
the same destruction. Thus one rabid
dog may spread the disease throughout
an extended area.
"The above symptoms do not always
appear in the so-called Paralytic
Eabies. The period of excitation is of
short duration and may be entirely
absent, paralysis appearing at the onset
of the disease. In this case, the
evolution of the disease lasts
four days."
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STUDENT PHYSICAL HEALTH REVEALS
INFANCY NEGLECT
Having Poor Health Habits, Ninety Per Cent of College Students
Are Not in the Condition That Should Be Found in
the Flower of Our Youth
By GEORGE T.
STAFFORD,
Assistant Professor of Physical Education, University of Illinois
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Childbeariug in our modern civilization
is no longer the simple physiological
process that many people believe
it to be. After the child is born, there
is still a great deal of work to be done
before the child becomes a useful citizen.
Whe6 one realizes that fifty thousand,
out of one hundred and forty
thousand babies born in one year, are
bottle fed at once, and that seventy per
cent of the infant mortality and infant
illness is found among this bottle fed
group, one of the many difficult phases
of infant welfare work can be readily
seen.
You may be wondering how I happen
to be interested in infant welfare work.
I find it closely connected with my
work with the physically subnormal
college students. There are a large
number of college students at the University
of Illinois not in good health.
Many of their conditions can be traced
back to infant neglect. I think of one