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is sometimes rather deceiving, as a person may 

 think, perhaps, there is a bone fixed on the teeth, 

 and opening the mouth to see, may get wounded 

 by the teeth. 



It is not often a rabid dog will attack his owner 

 unless the person tries to restrain him ; but he 

 will generally go for a stranger without hesitation 

 or provocation. Rabies cannot arise spontane- 

 ously, or from any other cause whatever but 

 inoculation by a bite from a dog suffering from 

 the disease. The inoculative period varies from 

 a fortnight to six weeks ; it has been known to 

 extend for three months. There is no doubt 

 that the saliva from a rabid dog's mouth, going 

 into the eye of another dog, would in all proba- 

 bility induce the disease. 



Treatment : There is no cure for this disease. 

 Directly it is established, the dog should at once 

 be destroyed, and shooting is the best and safest 

 way of destroying such an animal. 



I wish to dispel the idea which so many people 

 have, that if a dog bites another, or even a 

 person, and that dog should ever go mad, the dog 

 and also the person will go mad too ; such a thing 

 is impossible, even though the disease may be 

 lying latent in the dog the time he inflicted the 

 bites. Pasteur, who was a great authority on 

 rabies, used to say that a bite from a dog, even 

 two days before there were any visible symptoms 

 of the disease observed, was not dangerous. 



Ranula : 



Symptoms : A large, bladder - like swelling 

 under the tongue, which prevents the dog eating 



