. Preventive medicine and hygiene. Mem. by Officers of Med. and San. Depts., Gov. Ind., N. S.,No. 44. ^Jour. Infect, Dis., XIV^ 1, January, 1914, p. 33. RABIES 43 fact that the virus is destroyed Avhen exposed for two hours to ceut. solution. This indicates that formalin may be a useful sub-stance to treat dog bites, although experiments have shown that it isnot as dependable as nitric acid. Bichlorid of mercury, 1-1,000, for1 hour, or a saturated solution of iodin in water, completely destroys thevirulence, and AVyrsykowski has shown that gastric juice has a pro-nounced deleterious ef
. Preventive medicine and hygiene. Mem. by Officers of Med. and San. Depts., Gov. Ind., N. S.,No. 44. ^Jour. Infect, Dis., XIV^ 1, January, 1914, p. 33. RABIES 43 fact that the virus is destroyed Avhen exposed for two hours to ceut. solution. This indicates that formalin may be a useful sub-stance to treat dog bites, although experiments have shown that it isnot as dependable as nitric acid. Bichlorid of mercury, 1-1,000, for1 hour, or a saturated solution of iodin in water, completely destroys thevirulence, and AVyrsykowski has shown that gastric juice has a pro-nounced deleterious effect upon the virus. PE0PHYLAXI8 The prevention of rabies is considered under three heads: (1)Treatment of the wounds; {2) the Pasteur prophylactic treatment, and(3) the control of the disease in dogs by muzzling and quarantine. The cauterization of the wound and the Pasteur prophylactic treat-ment are efficient preventive measures for the individual, but they arenot the true and best methods of controlling and preventing Fig. 11. Chart Showing Relation of Enforcement of Muzzling Law to Prev-alence OF Rabies in Great Britain. The figures in the cross-patching indicate the number of persons who died of rabies_inEngland and Wales. The ordinates represent cases in dogs. (Frothingham.) The disease may be avoided, even exterminated, by an intelligent systemof muzzling and quarantining of dogs. A high tax on dogs and leash-ing are only restrictive measures. In England, when the dogs weremuzzled, rabies diminished. The law was repealed, owing to misplacedsympathy for the dog, and rabies promptly increased. The law wasagain enforced, and in about two years the disease disappeared (see Fig. 44 DISEASES HAVING SPECIAL PEOPHYLAXIS 11). Now a strict quarantine of six months is maintained againstdogs entering England. It is no longer necessary to muzzle dogs inEngland, but muzzles will again be required should the disease muzzling of all dogs for two years will
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