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hydrophobic hound as in the case of the hound 

 insane from distemper ; and post-mortem examina- 

 tion shows the terrible inflammatory action existing 

 in the brain, in that particular the same as in the 

 case of the other. When insane, neither patient 

 at all times recognizes a master, or save in a few 

 lucid intervals ; both will bite at anything that 

 comes near them ; alike they refuse their food ; the 

 same heaviness in their eyes and look of de23ression 

 exists ; and were you to put two hounds together, 

 the one mad from distemper, the other mad from 

 hydrophohla, at a glance I could not attempt to 

 distinguish between them ; that is to say, if no 

 water was in or near the place of their confinement. 



Supposing the two sufferers were thus together, 

 the key to speedy elucidation is a dish of water. 

 A dish of water put down before them, the hound 

 mad from distemper would greedily laj) at it, and 

 so would lie long for the cooling draught, that, 

 finding from the spasm in his throat that he could 

 not swallow to slake his thirst, he would plunge 

 his nose in the liquid even to his eyes, and cover 

 the water, and the dish that contained it, with the 

 saliva from his jaws. 



Not so the dog mad from '' hydrophohiay He 



