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tented themselves with adopting*, and giving-, as their own, 

 as much as suited their purpose*. One or two individuals, 

 still more ung-enerously to favour their own views of the 

 subject, have endeavoured to throw a shade over the 

 whole, by affecting- to dispute the correctness of my state- 

 ments, or the force of the inferences drawn therefromt. 



* I believe no one who reads the Prize Dissertation of Mr. Oilman 

 will doubt that, on the subject of the rabid malady in dogs, he was prin- 

 cipally indebted to what had been made public by me. If it at all 

 assisted the great cause of hvimanity, he is most welcome to all he 

 obtained ; and, had he been candid enough to have acknowledged the 

 source from whence he derived his information, it would not, I hope, 

 have discredited his cause. On this subject Dr. Parry says, " Since 

 " writing the preceding remarks, I have perused the Dissertation of 

 *' Mr. Gilman on the Bite of a Rabid Animal. In that part of this work 

 " which respects the symptoms of rabies in dogs— evidently taken 

 " from the article Dog in Rees^s Cyclopcediaj or at least from the same 

 " source." — Rabies Contagiosa, p. 170-1. 



f I hope it would as little accord with my inclination as it would en- 

 hance my character, to attempt to sully any merited honours that shine 

 around the grave of departed genius ; but common justice to myself, 

 and above all the great cause of truth, force me to the notice of what is 

 well known to the medical world in general, and openly acknowledged 

 by many of its most distinguished members, — that Dr. Parky, of Bath, 

 in his well-known work on the Hydrophobia, had by his severity, butstill 

 more by the vinfairness of his criticisms on these remarks, subjected 

 himself to a suspicion that candid examination was less his object, than 

 invidious intolerance towards whatever differed from himself. Were 

 my personal vanity alone concerned, I should probably best consult it 

 by silence ; for I have little reason to doubt, that, long after the theoretic 

 views and dogmatic assertions which form the ground-work of Dr. P.'s 

 publication are consigned to oblivion, these statements of undoubted 

 facts, and these remarks drawn from long and attentive observation, will 

 form a faithful portrait of the rabid malady, which will be resorted to 

 by every one seeking information relative to it. The research and 

 in°-enuity displayed in this celebrated work are, unfortunately for the 

 posthumous reputation of its author, tarnished by the artful attempts to 

 make whatever has appeared from others either bend to the angle of 

 view under which he has placed his subject, or by endeavours still more 

 unfair to throw discredit on such portions as prove themselves too 

 stubborn for his purpose. In this way Dr. P., on the authority of three 



