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he applied it to the wound of the horse which re- 

 mained perfectly unaffected, while the pig died of 

 hydrophobia twelve days after it was bitten. 



Suffocation by water has been said to obviate the 

 infection ; but the remedy is almost as bad as the 

 disease, and few would submit to the experiment. 



In Germany large doses of vinegar is esteemed an 

 antidote to hydrophobia. 



A dog may easily be detected when mad by the 

 tone of his voice, which is a characteristic noise be- 

 tween a bark and a howl, but approaching nearer to 

 the latter. 



The following observations by a veterinary surgeon 

 of this day may be serviceable : they appeared in the 

 " Evening Sun,'' of 1 842 :— 



*' Mr. Editor, — The case of hydrophobia reported 

 in the papers a few days since, induces me, with your 

 permission, to offer for the good of the pubhc, the 

 following observations on the disease, and the only 

 means we are acquainted with to prevent it : — 



" In the human being it is called hydrophobia ; in 

 the dog, and other animals, rabies. We are unac- 

 quainted with the nature of the poison, but it differs 

 from all other poisons by remaining apparently in a 

 dormant state for weeks, or even months, and it is not 

 absorbed into the system for some time after the bite. 

 No remedy is known for the disease when once it is 

 developed. None of the nostrums which are said to 

 be cures, can be relied upon. The cause of the 

 disease is equally unknown. Some have attributed it 

 to the heat of the weather — ' the dog days ;' others 

 to want of water, or ill usage, but we have no proof 

 of it. The present summer is the hottest we have 

 known for many years, and I have not heard of any 



