Professor Hamilton's Diary: Aug. 16, 1935

His sister-in-law is bitten by a dog; physician advice columnist mulls rabies treatment

It was a pretty quiet day in Bronxville, except that Margaret’s sister Marion “thought she had been bitten by the dog as her arm hurt her.” Now that’s a puzzlement. Did she remember being bitten? I mean, either you were bitten or you weren’t. Anyhow, he continued, “I went to the hospital with her and to the doctor.”

Coincidentally, the doctor column in the Aug. 16, 1935 Brooklyn Daily Eagle was about the proper treatment of rabies in humans. Paid subscribers can read on about the problem Dr. William Brady said had occupied his mind on many a night, “time I might have better given to a murder mystery.”

This 1935 rabies tag is being offered by a dealer on eBay. There’s a collector for everything!