Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1886 — "The Bite of a Mad Dog. [ARTICLE]

"The Bite of a Mad Dog.

Mr. George H. McCaughin, superintendent of the city pound and shelter for dogs, said, in speaking of dogs that are supposed to be mad, that it is a very common mistake to believe a dog mad because he jumps about and foams at the* v mouth. “A mad dog’s mouth is perfectly dry, with the tongue parched, and the under lips very often purple and swollen, ” said the superintendent. “He is practically blind, and when he starts to run he keeps in as straight a line as it is possible for him fro run. He never departs from that line, except when he runs into something, and that something he always bites at. His brain i& on fire; he is really insane. He never turns aside because of yells and cries. I don’t believe he hears them. His idea is probably to run from his own head, the pam of which makes him deaf as well as blind.

“I never yet saw a ipad dog on any of our periodical raids, and I am made personally acquainted with about 4,000 dogs in each year. I have seen men bitten by dogs in fits, but I have never known them to sutler therefrom further than one would from an ordinary dog-bite. Just remember that mad dogs do not foam at the mouth, and when they bite human beings or animals their victims generally show symptoms of hydrophobia within a very short time.— Philadelphia Record.