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The following- account of the rabid malady in dogs is the 

 result of many years' dilig-ent attention to the subject, com- 

 bined with opportunities for observation so numerous and 



hydrophobous cases in the human, and only one or two rabid ones in 

 the brute, endeavours to disprove almost the whole of the vast mass of 

 information collected and published by the most distinguished members 

 of the profession during the last forty years • and, at the same time to 

 prove, that the disease, in both the human and brute subject, has been 

 hitherto entirely mistaken in cause, appearance, and effect. 



But as the notoriety attendant on my extended experience in the 

 rabid malady, and that of my late coadjutor and present worthy friend, 

 Mr. YouATT, with the weight of authority derived therefrom, might be 

 supposed to militate more against the Doctor's new view of the Latter 

 than that of most others, so it was more particularly necessary, to fur- 

 ther his cause, that a disparaging shade should be thrown over our pub- 

 lic statements* ; and we, therefore, were treated with even less candour 

 and fairness than was observed towards the numerous other objects of 

 his castigation. In his examination of our writings, Dr. Parry has prac- 

 tised a conduct the most disingenuous. To produce an appearance of 

 discordance and opposition between the several parts, he has selected 

 detached and remote passages, and placed them continuously, purpose- 

 ly to give them the appearance of a contradictory whole • in which way 

 It is evident that the most perspicuous writer that ever put pen to paper 

 might be betrayed into the most glaring seeming inconsistencies. 



I can with truth affirm, that this attack on me as an individual influ- 

 ences me less in this notice than the more dangerous one made on truth 

 in general by his dogmatic denial of notorious facts, that he might there- 

 by, with some appearance of consistency, establish his favourite theory, 

 that the human and brute malady are wholly the same in cause, appear- 

 ance, and effect. " Laryngeal Spasm" is, with Dr. P., the foundation of 

 both diseases ; and as the hydrophobic symptom is one resulting from this 

 spasm in the human subject, hydrophobia must necessarily be present 

 in the dog also. To establish which exploded and even dangerous error, 

 he denies testimonies the most credible and established, and, without 



* Several cases of rabies, from the pen of Mr. Youatt, have appeared in tl.e 

 Medical and PhyncalJournal, and in the London Medical Repository, which we.e 

 an drawn with the perspicuity and accuracy that mark his literary perform- 

 ances. That they were faithful portraits of the disease, his extensive opportu- 

 nities and habits of observation will vouch; yet Dr. P. denies the existence of 

 everyone of these as a true case of rabies: on the contrary, so well versed 

 does he think himself in canine pathology, that, by the mere statement of symp. 

 toms, he takes on himself to pronounce some of them BroncJiitis, some Pneumo- 

 ni;i, and others pure Inflammation of the Fauces ! ! ! 



