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Canine Poifon—its Peculiarities—whether foon abforbed 
~—reputed Signs of Madnefs in Dogs— 
their Fallacy. 
THIS isy perhaps, the only infectious difeafe 
incident to brutes that is ever known to be communi- 
cated to man, unlefs the cow-pox fhould afford an 
exception to the general rule. On the other hand, 
contagious difeafes, incident to man, ‘are never known 
to be propagated to brutes. Nor is there any clear 
proof of this difeafe being communicated from man 
-to man, or from man to brute. 
The late Mr. Joun Hunter relates his having 
formerly inoculated other animals, both with vario- 
lous and fyphilitic matter, without producing any 
- fymptom of the refpeétive difeafes. 
Dr. VaucuHan inoculated a dog with the faliva 
of a rabid child, without effeé. 
Dr. BasincTon and Mr. Curing, we hear, lately 
performed a fimilar experiment, by inoculating a dog, 
three rabbits, and fome fowls, with the faliva taken 
from a perfon in the laft ftage of hydrophobia. 
Mr. A. Cooper repeated this experiment on a 
healthy dog, with faliva taken froma dog that died 
mad.* But in none of thefe experiments did any of 
the inoculated animals, at the expiration of two or 
three months, difcover any figns of infection. The 
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* Refearches by a Medical Society in London, vol. j. 
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