108 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



Except in looks, insanity, under the most severe 

 phases of distemper, and madness from hydrO' 

 phobia, thoug'h much resembling eacli other in 

 outward semblance, have very distinctive marks, 

 when closely observed, to distinguish the one from 

 the other. 



While suffering from either malady, — the one of 

 insanity from distemper, or what is sillil}^ and 

 vulgarly called dumb-madness, from which there is 

 a possible recovery, and the ever fatal madness of 

 ^^hydrophobia," from which there is no recovery, 

 — symptoms appear which greatly resemble each 

 other. In each case there is the same distressful 

 look about the eyes, the same inclination to bite, 

 and at times the same frothy saliva about the jaws, 

 and the same restlessness, to some extent, in mind 

 and frame. 



The marked and decisive differences hetiveen 

 ^^ distemper insanity^'' and ^'liydropho'bic madness,^^ 

 however, are, wlien carefully observed, as wide [in 

 their nature from each other as the appearances 

 previously mentioned are closely allied. 



The young or old hound, insane from ^^dis- 

 temper," has no intermittent relief, that is to say, 

 there are no j^hases between fits of insanity in 



