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its origin, but very difficult to combat — lias sprung 

 up, capable b}' its own cliinieric and mental 

 poison to produce, not the very disease tliat caused 

 tlic unfounded dread^ but a madness from the 

 force of imagination, arising in and nuistering 

 the temporarily unhinged intellect, and wliicli 

 might ultimately produce death. 



The same thing — the same liability to yield 

 to morbid sensations of dread which undermine 

 the constitution and unhinge the brain — often 

 manifests itself in man and woman, and it is, 

 therefore, wise and humane in all those who love 

 and like their fellow-creatures and their friends 

 to raise — or, at least, to devote their best 

 energies to raise— a shield of protection to ward 

 olf a possible or constitutional infliction which 

 the faculty, which the physician, cannot cope 

 with, as a '' rooted sorrow " is beyond his 

 reach. 



Then how much those ^ men deserve condemna- 

 tion who spread idle reports as to the insanities 

 of the canine race, — who, on small experience, 

 and still less practice, venture to include the 

 madness in dogs, curable or incurable, under the 

 solitarv term of '' rabies." 



