'^4:2 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



sionocl hy tlioir deaths wlicn the entry comes in 

 in sprifKjj Avould be saved; and this is not urged 

 on my authority alone, but I sj^eak on the authority 

 of tlie great Dr. Jenner, on the faith of Avhose 

 assurance I adopted the prevention I have so long 

 both used successfully and tried to teach. 



The real difficulty is, tlie possibility of meeting 

 witli an assured and undoubted case of hydro- 

 phobia. In the vast exj^erience, extending over 

 sixty years; which I have had, I have met witli, 

 as previously shown, but one instance of the sort. 

 If an assured case of the death-dooming malady 

 could be found, and the hydrophobic dog and 

 a distempered mad dog could be chained up in 

 tlie same kennel, then the real test of ivater could 

 undoubtedly be applied, and it would be seen 

 that the hydrophobic dog had an unconqaeraUe 

 dread of icater, while the distempered mad dog 

 would greeddij covet it, and persistimjlij try to drink. 

 The bite of the one sufferer would be fatal to 

 tlio life of anything, while that of the other 

 would sim2)ly occasion the mere inconvenience of 

 a superficial wound. If anything could create 

 any mirth in me wliile labouring to discuss so 

 solemn a subject as that of su2)poscd liydroj^jliobia 



