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which I had ample means of unequivocally ascer- 

 taining, namely, that in no one instance did a 

 dog become mad, after remaining well for a month 

 after the bite. The usual period in India, at 

 least as far as came under my observation, was 

 from fourteen to twenty-five days after the recep- 

 tion of the poison. There is a generally received 

 opinion in India, that dogs and jackalls become 

 more frequently mad there, in consequence of the 

 number of putrid human carcasses which they 

 have to feed on. But this idea, I think, is erro- 

 neous ; because, at Chittrah, rabid animals are 

 as common as in any part of India, or perhaps 

 more so ; yet in that place, no human carcass is 

 to be seen, in consequence of the abundance of 

 fuel to be procured for nothing, which enables the 

 inhabitants to burn their dead, a ceremony from 

 which the Hindoos are in any place prevented 

 only by a scarcity of fuel. 



I may remark another curious circumstance 

 which I have repeatedly and invariably observed, 

 namely, "that the animals above mentioned are 

 most frequently mad at the time when the jungle 

 fever is most prevalent, and vice versa" 



Another remark I shall make, which I think not 

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