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name of raging, the other by that of dumb madnelfs. 
In dumb madnefs, the nether jaw drops and is fixed, 
the tongue hangs out of the mouth, and flaver drops 
from it. In raging madnefs, the mouth is fhut, ex- 
cept when the dog fnaps or howls, and no moifture 
drops from it.” 
Thefe remarks on the figns of this malady in dogs, 
from a perfon of Mr. Msynex’s long experience 
and attentive obfervation, certainly demand ferious 
confideration. As they differ widely in many parti- 
culars from received opinions, they may help to cor- 
re&t the errors of thofe who have ftated imaginary 
fymptoms, deduced from theory, or copied from the 
miftakes of former writers. Neverthelefs, it may 
{till be afked, are the lofs of appetite, the difpofition 
to quarrel, the dulnefs of the eyes, or the drynefs 
of the tongue, peculiar to this malady? Or does not 
this train of fymptoms rather feem common to other 
acute or febrile difeafes? 
Do not dogs, when ill of other complaints, fome- 
times preferve a fullen filence inftead of barking? 
Do they not at other times, without any vifible 
caufe, or apparent indifpofition, fet up a difmal howl, 
“ making night hideous??? How is this to be dif- 
tinguifhed from the indefcribable howling of a mad- 
dog, except by thofe to whom the peculiar found of 
the latter is familiar? Whence is it that fear, and 
even the dread of water, the ftriking characteriftics 
of the difeafe in man, are entirely abfent in the 
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