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is the projet fo hopelefs as:might, ona flight 
confideration, be imagined. If the fad be 
fufficiently eftablifhed, which Mr. Meynell: has 
afferted from experience— That he preferved his 
Kennel from canine madnefs for a feries of 
years, by making every new hound perform 
quarantine for a certain time, previous to his 
admiffion among the pack,* it forms a ftrong 
prefumption that the difeafe is aways produced 
by an actual communication of the poifon of . 
an infected animal. ‘This conclufion is farther 
ftrengthened by the well-attefted fat, mentioned 
by Dr. Hunter, and other writers,f of canine 
madnefs not having been known to exift in the 
Ifland of Jamaica, for the fpace of forty years. 
The diftance of this ifland from the Continent is 
the probable caufe of its freedom from the com- 
plaint. For, if the canine poifon difcovers 
itfelf in dogs within three weeks or a month, its 
importation into the ifland would be prevented 
by the death of the infeed animal during the 
voyage. As it appears then highly probable, that 
canine madnefs can only be produced by an 
atual communication of the poifon of an in~ 
feéted animal, would not an Ad of the Legifla- 
ture, ordering all dogs to be carefully confined 
for a certain time (fix weeks would probably be 
fufficient) 
-* See Dr, Hunter’s paper in the “ Tranfaétions,” &c, 
+ Confult Dr. Mofely’s Treatife on the difeafea of trae 
fica) Climates, &c, 
