A WARNING TO YOUNG LADIES.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 966, 1 December 1882, Page 4

A WARNING TO YOUNG LADIES.

A Melbourne correspondent of a contemporary writes :— 44 A case has just occurred in Geelong which exemplifies the great danger of the very prevalent practice of fondling and kissing dogs and cats. A young lady was supposed by her friends to be Buffering from consumption. Many of the symptoms which developed themseßes were closely allied to those which are prevalent in phthisis. The death of a pet cat, which had been allowed to sleep on the same bed as its mistress, afforded a clue by which the observant medical man was enabled to trace the origin aud cauce of the disease from which his patient was suffering. On examining the interior organs of the animal a number of hydatid systs, varying in size from a pea to a marble, were found ; and the examination of the patient’s saliva disclosed the presence of a number of hydatids of the same class as those which had caused the death of the cat. Young ladies will doubtless be able, from the above case, to draw the moral that it is leas objectionab’e and less dangerous to indulge in the osculatory practice with members of the human family than, with those of either the feline or canine races.”