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analogy, seemed applicable to the case; and, when death 

 took place, a careful examination of the morbid appearances 

 was made in every instance which at all bid fair to throw 

 lig-ht on the subject. 



The necessity of a precise and clear knowledge of this 

 direful malady cannot but be evident, when we consider its 

 present prevalence, and how totally it has hitherto been mis- 

 understood and misrepresented. Although, for ages, even 

 the plague has hardly been more dreaded, yet in this, as well 

 as in other countries *, perhaps, no popular subject presents 



* Among our continental neighbours, where the ravages from rabid 

 wolves, in addition to those of dogs, operating on a campaign country, 

 might be supposed more constant and universal than with us, the want 

 of correct information on the subject has been at least equal to our own. 

 Such notices as have been within my reach from Germany, Spain, and 

 Italy, present nothing at all satisfactory and precise as regards the 

 brute malady. Neither in France is it better understood ; for in a volu- 

 minous work of great research and ingenuity, written expressly on the 

 rabid malady in general (and professing to contain whatever is known 

 or could be obtained on the subject, by Mons. Trolliet, Professor of 

 Medicine in the Hotel Dieu, in Lyons), a meagre account, comprised in 

 a single page, forms the whole characteristics of canine madness that 

 his own observation, and the innumerable publications on the matter 

 diffused over the Continent, furnished him with. Mons. T. even owns, 

 ** Quoique nous ne connoissions pas de signe certain de la rage dans le 

 ** cfeien, toutefois on doit soup^ouner que cette maladie existe lorsque 

 '< I'animal devient triste," &c. &c. &c., p. 274. " Le degre de certitude 

 " de I'existence de la rage saccroit, si le chien qui presente ces carac- 

 " teres a ete mordu en meme temps qu'une personne en un animal qui 

 " ait succombe a cette maladie," Nouveau Traite de la Rage, p. 275. On 

 a comparison between the account of the rabid malady, as described in 

 the report of Messrs. Enaux and Chaussier, and the above by Mons. 

 Troll. £T, it is evident that both emanated from one source; indeed, 

 one is a literal transcript of the other, and both are equally vague and 

 indefinite. This appears the more extraordinary, when it is considered 

 this joint work of Messrs. Enalx and Chaussier was a demi-official 

 publication, directed at the immediate instance of Government to give to 

 the French public the most correct information on the rabid malady. 

 As a proof how qualified these gentlemen were to fulfil their instruc- 

 tions, we find that, by them, " A mad dog avoids water, which redoubles 



