ON DISTEMPER AND MADNESS AMONG HOUNDS. 109 



wliicli lie will recognize liis liiintsiniin or master, 

 save just as the attack begins to mitigate, and 

 symptoms are evident that he is going to recover. 

 Whereas the clog mad fronl hydrophobia often 

 has occasional returns to reason, and during 

 these moments of natural sagacity he will recognize 

 Iiis master or huntsman, wag the stern when he 

 a2)proaches, and rise from his bed to receive him, 

 coming to the length of his precautionary chain. I 

 speak from personal experience in the matter. The 

 following fact, which I now give, is the never-failing 

 division between the tivo madnesses. The dog 

 insane from '' distemper " will greedily lap water, 

 and continue to lap the cold fluid for a length of 

 time without intermission, coveting relief from 

 the thirst the fever on the brain and throughout 

 the entire internal system has occasioned. He, 

 so far from ^^lating water," courts it in every 

 degree, and, by constant lapping and endeavours 

 to drink, I have seen the patient fill the pan of 

 water with quantities of foam. The '^diphtherian" 

 affection, if it can be so called, is a nervous 

 action in the throaty at times precluding the pos- 

 sibility to swallow. 



The sight of fluid, the noise made by the 



