ox DISTEMPER AND MADNESS AMONG HOUNDS. Ill 



rabid clog, is almost sure to follow tlic bite. It 

 must be evident to every thinking man that were 

 not the real cases very few indeed, this terrible 

 and fatal disease Avould very soon devastate a 

 land, for there is no living animal under the sun 

 that could not take, and would not then spread, 

 the deadly poison inoculated into the system. 



Mad dogs are often heard of, and mad dogs they 

 ]nay be; but though they are decidedly out of 

 their senses, or insane, they are not svfferimj from 

 liijdropliohia. 



I have heard of luad dogs swimming a river, 

 and of mad dogs greedily lapping at water ; and 

 have seen it written by men who knew nothing 

 about it, that the olden name given to the disease 

 in the Greek language was an error, as the 

 swimming a river and drinking water proved it 

 to be so. 



It w^as not and is not a misnomer in Greek, for 

 those mad dogs, if they were insane, were not 

 suffering from the deadly disease in question, but 

 they Avere labouring under some other aberration 

 of intellect, when, if they bit any living creature, 

 the bite need not, of necessity, be attended with 

 any fatal result. 



