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Chop these finely, and, after boiling them in a pint of water to 

 half a pint, strain and press out the liquor. Beat them in a 

 mortar, or otherwise bruise them thoroughly, and boil them 

 again, in a pint of new milk, to half a pint, which press out as 

 before. After this, mix both the boiled liquors, which will make 

 three doses for a human subject. Double this quantity will form 

 three doses for a horse or cow ; two-thirds of it is sufficient for a 

 large dog, calf, sheep, or hog ; half of the quantity is required 

 fox a middle-sized dog ; and one-third for a small one. These 

 three doses are said to be sufficient, and one of them is directed 

 to be given every morning fasting. Both human and brute 

 subjects ai'e treated in the same manner, according to the pro- 

 portions specified." 



Of this remedy the writer asserts, that he has repeatedly seen 

 it tried, and in one or two instances without any other means 

 being taken, at the particular request of the patients ; and that 

 in all the cases it proved successful. 



It would, however, be worse than madness in every person 

 bitten, to rely upon such means as this. I shall now conclude 

 my observations on this subject, by the directions which he 

 gives in relation to the extirpation of the virus by means of the 

 knife, or the actual cautery, or caustic, which is the only pre- 

 ventive on which dependence can be placed. 



His remarks on the curative treatment of bitten dogs I shall 

 entirely pass over, for greatly as I deprecate the wholesale and 

 inhuman butchery of these valuable and in many respects admi- 

 rable creatures, as it is annually perpetrated without cause in 

 the streets of our great cities, still more do I deprecate the 

 sparing of a dog bitten by one suspected of madness. 



Every dog-owner should remember that, if he knowingly 

 preserve a dog bitten by another on good grounds suspected of 

 madness, and that if death ensue to a fellow-being from his 

 guilty neglect, whether human law regard him innocent or no, 

 there is much cause to believe that He, without whose know- 

 ledge, it is said, that not a sparrow falls from heaven, will re- 

 quire at his hands the blood of his brother. 



