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ease in this species of animal always shews itself in five or six 

 weeks; and concludes from hence, that this dreadful malady 

 might be annihilated by making all the dogs in Great Britain 

 perform a kind of quarantine, by shutting them up for a certain 

 number of weeks. Though the disease from the bite of the mad 

 dog is perhaps more analogous to those from the wounds inflicted 

 by venomous animals than to those from other contagious matter, 

 yet these observations are well worthy further attention; which 

 the author promises. 



In Dr. Hamilton's elaborate Treatise on Hydrophobia, Long- 

 man, London, it is proposed to try the effect of arsenic in this dis- 

 ease, which is said to be the principal ingredient of the Tanjore 

 pill, which is said to cure those who are diseased by the bite of 

 serpents, and to cure the hydrophobia. 



A solution of sublimate of mercury in rectified spirits is also 

 worthy a trial, as mentioned in Class I. 3. 1. II. 



