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hounds cannot be out too much. Mine were nearly all 

 day out of the kennel, except at breakfast and dinner 

 hours ; in the heat of the day under the shade of trees, 

 and at other times walking about. Nothing is so con- 

 ducive to health as plenty of air and exercise. 



With all due humility I now approach a subject which 

 has arrested, if it has not occupied, the attention of the 

 cleverest medical men of all ages, and in all climes — 

 rabies canina, or hydrophobia — and which has hitherto 

 baffled the skill of all. It is difficult to account for the 

 appearance of this dreadful scourge, of the human as well 

 as canine race, or to say for how long a period the virus 

 may remain dormant in the system, before made to 

 exhibit itself by some exciting cause. My own opinion 

 is, that it may remain so for months certainly, and I am 

 inclined to believe for years ; and I will give my reasons 

 presently for so thinking. When hydrophobia has once 

 broken out, in either man or beast, I believe it hardly 

 ever yet has been subdued, but I think from what I have 

 observed, that its paroxysms may be much alleviated, 

 and, I should say, successfully reduced, but I must leave 

 to the medical profession to determine by what treat- 

 ment and medicines. From its so unfrequently occur- 

 ring, I am induced to think that very great attention of 

 late has not been paid to hydrophobia, and being con- 

 sidered an incurable disease, remedies have been thought 

 hopeless. That it may be prevented breaking out for 

 many years in a subject who has been most severely 

 bitten by a mad dog, I can attest. Many instances have 

 been cited to the same effect by writers on this subject, 

 and if we are to believe certain authorities of the old 

 school, the Ormskirk medicine was an infallible remedy. 



