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MADNESS. 

 This dreadful complaint is frequently confounded 

 with diftemper, to the terror of many perfons ; and in 

 many cafes it really requires the judgment of the 

 experienced to decide between them. I have, in the 

 Treatife on Dijlemper, endeavoured to lay down fuch 

 exad direftions for the mode of diflinguifhing thefe 

 two affedlions from each other, that I think will 

 enable any perfon, having recourfe to it, to decide 

 in a moment between them. Since diftemper has 

 been fo prevalent, madnefs is much lefs frequently 

 feen : but as it is generated within this genus of qua- 

 drupeds, and only to be caught by all others, fo 

 there is reafon to fear it will never be wholly exter- 

 minated. 



MANGE. 



This is a very frequent and troublefome difeafe 

 among dogs, all of whom appear fubjeft to it, but 

 fome more fo than others. White dogs are pecu- 

 liarly fubjea to it; and thofe M'ith wiry coarfe hair 

 more fo than any others. It puts on different ap- 

 pearances ; that is, there are feveral varieties of it, 

 but two are moft common : that called the rmik 

 mange, with ulcerated fcabby lkin,and that producing 

 only a red inflamed fkin, called the red mange. 



When dogs are very much reduced in flclh, there 

 is a fcurfy ftate fpreadiiig over the whole body, 



