APPENDIX. -(D.) 



CANINE MADNESS, 



From my childhood upward 1 have been among dogs. My 

 father kept a large kennel of Pointers and Setters; from the 

 age of ten years I was among Foxhounds. I lived, up to my 

 visiting the United States, in Yorkshire, perhaps the most sport- 

 ing county in England ; and since 1 have been a man, I never 

 have been without one dog, and much oftener have owned half 

 a dozen. 



During this space of time, certainly not less than five-and- 

 thirty years of clear and comprehensive memory, I have nevei 

 seen a mad dog, nor heard one authenticated instance of a dug 

 being mad, though I have seen hundreds knocked on the head 

 as mad, which were infinitely saner than their slayers. 



The consequence of this fact — for a fact it is — was, that for 

 many years I was a disbeliever, if not in the possibility of canine 

 madness at all, at least in the possibility of its communication 

 to any animals but those of the canine race. And all the deaths 

 attributed to hydrophobia — as the disease is most absurdly mis- 

 named — I assigned to tetanus — lockjaw — to inflammatory dis- 

 ease arising from punctured wounds, and a sympathetic state of 

 body — to imagination, and to terror. 



Of these maladies, I am still well satisfied that four-fifths of 

 the persons said to die hydrophobous, are the victims ; as well 

 as of malpractice in cutting and buming the parts. 



Since studying Blaine's Canine Pathology, I am satisfied that 

 I carried my theory too far, and that the disease is communica- 



