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FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



liis lii^s are covered, from an attempt to drink, 

 witli saliva. He refuses his food, is restless, 

 and certainly is, for the time, an essentially 

 ^^mad dog." If he dies, as he sometimes^ not 

 alivai/s, does J a 2)ost-mortem examination shows 

 that his brain is inflamed, the intestines generally 

 disordered, and the stomach in a state of irritation, 

 containing bits of straw, and at times chips from 

 wood that he has been gnawing. 



In the case of homids or dogs thus ^^ mad from 

 distemper," a careful master or huntsman has plenty 

 of time to be aware of the approach of the disease 

 to know whence it rises, and, therefore, to be per- 

 fectly certain that it is )iot ^^hydrophohia.'" The 

 ^^ madness" or disease from which the hounds under 

 ^^ distemper" suffer, is not transferable to any living 

 thing, save to creatures of their own kind. If they 

 inoculate others with it, it is not of necessity that 

 thoj^e hounds or do^rs who take it should oo mad. 

 On the contrary, tliey inay have the attack in a 

 milder form ; some of them may become, for a time, 

 insane, but others may simply have the usual signs 

 of the common })hase of distem2)er, and have the 

 cough or huskiness, and the discliarge from i\\Q 

 nose. If by some hi<jJdi/ culjmhle iicujlcct a Imnts- 



