lOG FACT AGAINST FICTION . 



SO suffering will l3ite each other, or their huntsman 

 or kennel-mauj if he chances to come in contact 

 with their wild and staggering gait, or touches 

 them when they are lying down. They are for 

 the time, or when the disease is at its height, com- 

 pletely ^' mad," hut their insanity is not contagious 

 in a hite, and it would have no more danger to 

 human life than the bite of a healthful dog would 

 have when given under other circumstances. 



When severely suffering from this acute form of 

 distemper, fits very often supervene, and if such is 

 the case, a young hound so suffering, in ninety- 

 nine cases out of one hundred, dies. 



Any casual observer looking on a malady of 

 insanity such as this arising from ^^ distemper," 

 might at once mistake it for the ever fatal disease 

 of '^ hydrophobia." 



In my kennel of greyhounds at Beacon Lodge, 

 many years age, a servant of mine, now head 

 keeper at Hinton Admiral, near Christchurch, in 

 Hampshire, luider Sir George Jervis, John Dewey, 

 having a scratch on his hand in administering 

 medicine to these poor insane things, got the foam 

 from their jaws into this cut on his hand, and 

 instantly imagined that he was likely to go mad. 



