468 Mifcellaneous Obfervations on 
in the operation of moft other infectious dif- 
eafes. Befides, the length of time (above fix 
weeks) from the bite to the death of the patient, 
exceeds the general period affigned for the fatal 
termination of madnefs in dogs. Dod¢tor Hun- 
ter,* in his ingenious paper on this fubject, 
obferves, that the difeafe generally proves fatal 
to dogs in three weeks. Is it not then a little | 
extraordinary, that Doctor M. Lifter fhould 
have expreffed no doubts, relative to the power 
this dog had of communicating the infection, 
when he confeffes the animal appeared free 
from any fymptom of madnefs, at the time the 
| patient 
others, from his long experience and attention to what- 
foever regards their health and fafety. He obligingly 
returned the following anfwers, to fome queries I had 
propofed. -1ft. « Madnefs generally appears between a 
« month ard fix weeks after the bite; about a fortnight is 
*‘ the fhorteft, and eight months the longeft period I have 
“known it to appear in after the bite.” od, “I know no 
“* inftance of a dog apparently in good health having com- 
«‘ municated the difeafe; but I have known the difeafe to 
«‘ have been communicated by a dog that, to one who was 
“not a nice obferver, or was not well acquainted from 
“- experience with the fymptoms of canine madnefs, might 
“have appeared in perfeét health.” gd. “ I am not 
“© acquainted with any inftance of a dog having apparently 
“recovered, and then relapfed, after the fymptoms of 
*¢ the difeafe had once appeared.” 
* See Tranfaftions of a Society for the improvement of 
medical knowledge, vol, i. py295« 
