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Foaming at the mouth in dogs is not an invariable or even frequent symptom of rabies. It may be caused by a nervous disturbance, local inflammation, convulsions or running fits. But the rabies virus is transmitted by saliva and abundant salivation accompanies rabies, especially in the "dumb" phase when the lower jaw becomes paralyzed. Rabies is a much rarer disease than commonly supposed. Immunity to it is high in dogs and humans. The Pasteur treatment within five days of being bitten is highly effective protection. Detection of rabies in its early stages is difficult. The rabid dog is infectious...
...diploma last week bore the seals of Dr. Martha Eliot of the U. S. Children's Bureau, Dr. Elmer Martin Nelson of the Department of Agriculture and Dr. Chester Deebell Tolle of the Bureau of Fisheries. Salmon oil (probably to be called Saliver, unless the connotation of saliva forbids) contains, they said, twice the Vitamin D potency of cod liver oil. Happy news to the salmon industry is that 1,000,000 gal. of the oil a year can be salvaged from canning wastes...
...Cocktails make the mouth water ? until the alcohol gets into the blood. Then the saliva tends to cease flowing and the parched throat craves another drink. Whatever good effect the cocktails have as appetizers, the good must soon be lost. For as soon as the blood absorbs the alcohol, digestion is retarded. ? Dr. Andrew Leon Winsor, Cornell University...
...first suspected that mosquitoes might be carriers, as in the case with malaria. Numerous microscopic examinations, however, revealed that either because its sting is administered more deeply in the flesh or because the saliva of the insect is inimical to the parasite, the mosquito is definitely not a carrier. That the Eusimulium fly was the true source of infection was proved conclusively by over 2000 microscopic examinations...
...last year made a report on the "Pharmacology of Thallium and Its Use in Rodent Control" for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, found pilocarpine helpful. Philocarpine, an active poison from the tropical American jaborandi shrub, stimulates many of the physiological activities which thallium destroys. It causes saliva and urine to flow, hair to grow. Mr. Munch telegraphed instructions to California on how to use the drug, took a plane to administer it himself...