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are also mentioned in nearly all subsequent works on old 

 hunting dealing with " sicknesses of hounds." They 

 are the hot burning madness, running madness, dumb 

 madness, lank madness, rheumatic madness or slavering 

 madness, falling madness, sleeping madness. 



These are mentioned in Roy Modus, and the cure for 

 rabies, of taking the afflicted dog to the sea and letting 

 nine waves wash over him, as well as the cock cure 

 mentioned in our English MS., were botli taken by 

 Gaston from Roy Modus, or both derived them from 

 some common source (Roy Modus, fol. xlv. r). 



The water cure is mentioned also by Albertus Magnus 

 (Alb. Mag., 215, a 27). 



It seems likely to have been to try the efficacy of this 

 cure that King Edward I. sent some of his hounds to 

 Dover to bathe in the sea, the following account for 

 which is entered in his Wardrobe Accounts : 



"To John le Berner, going to Dover to bathe six 

 braches by the King's order and for staying there for 

 21 days for his expense 3. 6d " (6 Edward I. Quoted 

 from MS. Philipps, 8676). 



The means of recognising rabies by a cock is also 

 mentioned in the recipe of the eleventh century given 

 by Avicenna (957-1037), and it appears again in Vin- 

 centius Bellovacensis and is also to be found in Alexander 

 Neckham. Although the manner of using the cock for 

 this purpose varies, we see by the fact of its being men- 

 tioned in different works preceding our MS. that the 

 cock enjoyed some legendary renown for at least a couple 

 of centuries before Gaston (Werth, p. 55). 



Nowadays only two varieties of rabies are recognised : 

 furious and dumb rabies. Tlie numerous divisions of the 

 old authors were based on different stages of the disease 

 and slight variations in the symptoms. 



When a doo; is attacked with rabies its owner often 

 supposes that the dog has a bone in its throat, so that a 

 report of this condition is regarded by veterinary surgeons 

 with suspicion. This corresponds with the description 



