YIU riiKFACE. 



It was this conviction, and to avoid this possi- 

 bility, that made me take special care that the 

 Yoimg hounds, that had come into kennel for the 

 '^ entry," could by no means get into contact, 

 nose to nose, with the body of old hounds. 



^' Hydrophobia," happily, is extremely rare ; 

 and, wide as tlie belief is in that silly term 

 ''rabies," which men under red feathers would have 

 us believe to be the disease incurable, or only to 

 be treated with pills of lead, where is there a 

 man who has dog-kennels enough at his command 

 to house or put up the dogs that might be sent 

 him for experiment or in number similar to 

 those in my possession ? 



Unless each dog has a certificate from a sensible 

 owner to say whether or not he had liad the distem- 

 per, or had been vaccinated to prevent his having it, 

 the saliva from the dog's jaws would tell no decided 

 tale, so far as concerns madness from distem2:)er, 

 hydrophobia, or any other insanity whatever. 



It may be all very well to request people, all 

 of whom have an inflammatory dread of the ''ill 

 name that liangs a dog," to tale saliva from Ms 

 jaws ; but, having myself been a constant atten- 

 dant on hundreds of cases annually, for more than 

 half . a century, I know the dread of servants, 

 even those best trained to obedience, when told 

 to touch a liound or dog afflicted Avitli anf/ sort 

 of insanityj subjecting it to that accursed and all- 

 including appellation, "a mad dog." 



