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may not be amifs to give the oil alfo internally, ac- 
cording to the direétions. Previous to this plan of 
treatment, however, the wound ought to be diligently 
wafhed and cauterized. 
If it cure dogs after the infe&tion has taken place, 
it is a remarkable circumftance; but ftill more fo, if 
it effect this by throwing them into a profufe per/pi- 
ration. ‘This muft certainly be a miftake. Dogs, 
indeed, perfpire copioufly from the lungs, but 
affuredly never from the fkin, even in the fevereft 
fox-chace. May not this peculiarity in the canine 
race be one reafon why the difeafe originated with 
them? And alfo, why they are more liable than 
other animals to propagate this horrible contagion? 
May not a defeét in the exhalation from the lungs, 
aided by other concurring caufes, tend to bring on 
a difeafed aétion of the falivary glands, which, by 
increafing and vitiating the fecretion, converts that 
bland fluid into a fubtile poifon? 
As the gaftric liquor of a healthy animal has the 
fingular property of counteracting animal poifons 
taken into the ftomach, might not this fluid, applied 
to the envenomed wound, tend to deftroy the activity 
of the canine poifon? 
As the faliva differs very little from the gaftric li- 
quor, may it not, in the aé of fucking out the poifon, 
add to the fecurity by fubduing any minute remnant 
Jurking at the bottom of the wound? 
Mr. 
