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man permits yoimg liomicls so suffering to come 

 in contact Avitli the old liounds, some of tlie old 

 liomidsj wlio have even had in their yomiger days 

 the distemper, may take it by inoculation from 

 nose to nose a second time ; but if they do so 

 take it a second time, as I have before remarked, 

 it is usually in a reduced or much milder form. 



Some few instances have been brought to my 

 notice where old hounds, deemed to have had a 

 previous attack of the distemper, have taken it a 

 second time and died ; but those instances are very 

 rare, and may be looked on as exceptions to prove 

 a rule. 



Having described the symptoms of the hound 

 when suffering under madness caused by distemper, 

 — a madness by which mem cannot be affected, 

 and which, _/9ei' se, cannot be transmitted by the 

 sufferer in an insane form to any other creature, — 

 I will now return to that mare terrible, and always 

 fatal malady, ^^hydrophobia,'' and point out the 

 distinction between the two. 



This disease can only be transmitted by a bite ; 



at least we know of no other way by which it 



can be originated, save that by inoculation. 



Whence it comes, where it arises, or what has 



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