MAD DOGS. 207 



I have never known them to eat or lap after 

 having dropped their tongues. 



Whenever a dog is more lively than usual, par- 

 ticularly if he raises his bristles on trifling occa- 

 sions, and seems unusually ready to quarrel 

 with other dogs, he should be confined ; for these 

 are the principal symptoms in the early stage that 

 characterize the disease. It should be observed 

 that dogs are subject to various disorders like 

 other animals, in which these symptoms do not 

 commonly attend. As far as my observations go, 

 they induce me to think, that the communication 

 of the disease is confined to the canine species, 

 (perhaps including the feline) and by them to 

 men or animals by the insertion only of saliva 

 into a wound or abraded skin ; I cannot offer any 

 proof of this, but I think it is fair to conclude so, 

 as no instance is recorded that I know of, of its 

 having been communicated by other animals, or 

 by dogs to other animals in a different way ; but 

 with respect to one another, I am of a different 

 opinion, for the following reasons, which were 

 detailed in my communication to Doctor James 

 Johnson. 



" It often happens that mad dogs or jackalls 



