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experience of more than twenty years, I again repeat, hai* 

 never produced one instance where any thing- like spasm was 

 present in the throat, and where a consequent dread of swal- 

 lowing-, or pain from the attempts to do it, appeared in the 

 slig-htest degree. 



An early and marked alteration of temper usually presents 

 itself, and this so generally as to form a disting-uishing- feature 



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dogs must also be hydrophobous, because the human subject is so. His 

 dictum on this matter he considers sufficient to overturn all the collected 

 facts which go to prove the direct contrary ; and the whole of this other- 

 wise ingenious production is a lamentable proof to what even great 

 minds will stoop when a favourite point is to be established. 



Mr. Meynell expressly says, mad dogs have no abhorrence or dread 

 of water, and that they will eagerly lap it even the day before their 

 death. He also notices the paralysis that often renders their attempts to 

 drink abortive. 



Dr. John Hunter, who was not accustomed to state facts without ex- 

 amination, says, that " mad dogs can swallow solids and liquids through 

 *' the whole disease."— Tra??s. of a Soc. for the Improvement of Medical 

 Knowledge, p. 296. 



Dr. Hamilton also says, " A rabid dog never avoids water, and lapa 



whatever liquid food is set before him, long after the poison can be 

 "communicated by his bite." — Remarks on Hydrophobia, vol. i, p. 12- 

 16. 



In a case of rabies, related by Mr. Youatt, he says, " On the fourth 

 *' day, he not only eagerly lapped milk and water, but readily swallowed 

 "it." — 3Ied. and Phys. Journal, vol. xxxi, p. 231. — In another case he 

 observes, " On the third day, though his thirst was excessive, and he 

 "plunged his whole face in watei-, yet he could not swallow : but he 

 "was not prevented by spasm; the cause was purely mechanical." 

 A third case states, that " the dog ate and drank heartily before his 

 " death." — See London Medical Journal, and London Repository, Cases 2, 

 3, and 5. 



" Cette chienne, avoit vu et mange apres avoir mordu." — Journal de 

 Medccine, vol. xxxix. 



" Le loup mangeoit tranquillement une chevre, et celui de Frejus 

 " traversa plusieurs fois de grandes rivieres a la nage."— Foy. d'Arluc, 

 Recueil Periodique, vol. iv. 



" II est done dangereux de concleur de ce quhm animal voifjet mange 

 " et traverse une riviere ([u'll n'est point atteint de la rage." — Trolliet,-^ 

 Nov. Trait, dc la Rage, p. "i7<S. 



