DISEASES TO WHICH HOUNDS ARE LIABLE. 1G9 



those labouring men from tlie bite of a foxhomid, 



though several hounds were decidedly suffering from 



insanity arising from distemper, now called ^^ rabies 



or dumb-madness"; nor in all the time during 



which I had the second choice of young hounds 



from the castle kennels to take to my own kennels, 



did I ever have brought within my notice more 



than that one instance of real hydrophobic 



madness, which existed in the young hound who 



had been sent to me from Berkeley under a 



caution that he had been run at and knocked 



over while at walk by a decidedly hydrophobic cur. 



If any huntsman or any veterinary surgeon 



has had greater experience than I . have had of 



the real nature of the two madnesses, and of 



the fatal consequences or otherwise attendant on 



the bite of quasi-mad dogs, his experience must 



have extended beyond any one life, and have 



reverted to some ^ limiting ground" to which the 



savage has assigned an inappropriate name. 



There is nothing like practical experience to 

 elucidate curious things. I very much doubt, if 

 two pails of soup from the kennel boiler were put 

 side by side for the inspection of the Veterinary 

 College (I quite put out of the question some 



