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or of aTi attack of violent bronchitis, inflammation of lungs or 

 i)Ovvels, or of scarlet or typhus fevers, I would certainly choose 

 the clog. The remedy is severe and painful, but it is, at least, 

 infallible. 



Hear now what Blaine, a canine veterinarian of the first 

 order, says on the subject. On the dog Mr. Blaine is what Mr. 

 Abernethy, or Sir Astley Cooper, are on the man, and his opi- 

 nions are entitled to the like respect. 



"HISTORY OP RABIES. 



" The popular term of madness among dogs has, of late years, 

 given place to the more classical one of rabies ; but a slight view 

 only of the subject is sufficient to shew, that this disease yet 

 wants a name more strictly descuiptive of its nature and charac- 

 ter than any of those in general use. The complaint itself is, 

 unquestionably, of great antiquity ; for we have authentic ac- 

 counts of it for more than 2000 years. It is described both by 

 Aristotle and Dioscorides. Other of the ancients likewise notice 

 it, — history has continued to furnish us with numerous traces of 

 it, particularly in Europe, where it seems sometimes to havo 

 raged with epidemic fury, and at others to have been but little 

 kntjwn. In 1500, Spain was ravaged by it. In 1604 it was 

 very common in Paris ; and 100 years after this, Germany be- 

 came the theatre of this dreadful scourge among its wolves as 

 well as dogs. Historians of every age have left short but fright- 

 ful records of its dreadful visitations. Boerhaave may, per- 

 haps, be considered the first who, by attentive observation, threw 

 much light on canine madness. In England, little had appeared 

 worthy of notice before the account presented by Mr. Meynell. 

 This celebrated sportsman published his memoir in the tenth 

 volume of the Medical Commentaries ; and if his account of ca- 

 nine madness does not exactly coincide with future representa- 

 tions, drawn from a wider field of observation, it nevertheless 

 characterizes the disease with considerable j^recision ; and, at 



