ON DISTEMPER AND MADNESS AMONG HOUNDS. 105 



madness. '^ ^^ DLiinb-iiiadness" and ^Maydrophobia" 

 combined. 



Of course it is impossible for me at a distance 

 to judge of the internal management of that kennel, 

 but for the life of me I cannot understand how 

 insanity of any sort or kind could break out in a 

 well-cared-for kennel without its being inmiediately 

 noticed through premonitory symptoms, and cut at 

 or stamped out at the beginning by removing 

 the hounds that first showed an approach even to 

 constitutional discomfort. 



That portion of a disease alluded to, ^^ diphtheria," 

 in hounds and dogs of all kinds, though not exactly 

 ^'diphtheria," I am jDcrfectly well acquainted with, 

 but it is neither allied to nor has it anything to 

 do with '^ hydrophobia." 



When it assails a kennel of foxhounds, it usually 

 comes in with the season's entry of pupjDies, and it 

 first appears in the form of the common and in- 

 evitable '^ distemper." The attack, in its severest 

 form, is, in nine cases out of ten, attended witli a 

 morose and savage aberration of intellect^ with a 

 ^'madness" that in its intensity and inclination to 

 bite, as well as in some of its appearances, is closely 

 allied to '^ hydrophobia." Thus the poor animals 



