o^-i FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



not be the case that M. Bourrel knew as well as 

 I do that none of those dogs were really afflicted 

 with h}'drophobia, and that they were poor crea- 

 tures only suffering from distemper madness, or 

 rabid from the pain inflicted by the Frenchman's 

 hands ? 



The Medical Recoxl continues : — ^' Six dogs kept 

 for experiment were then delivered over to the 

 mad animalsj who precipitated themselves on tliem, 

 and bit them furiously, but without l^reaking tlie 

 skin in any one of them. 



'^ The dogs experimented, on were watched during 

 six months, and madness did not show itself in any 

 one of the number." 



Again, kind reader, let me aj^peal to you. Is 

 this not a proof that not one of tliose poor, dear 

 animals — from those who, in a raging state (no 

 wonder), were forced to submit to the veterinary 

 dentifrice of the daring M. Bourrel, rather rouglier, 

 perhaps, than that of the surgeon-dentist, to tlie 

 six who were bitten furiously by tlie su2:)posed 

 hydropliobic dogs — that not one of those poor 

 things had any joower in their jaws to convey 

 a deadly infection ? 



The ridiculous, but frightfully mischievous. 



