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tacked with hydrophobia in consequence of having 

 wiped their mouths with linen wliich had been 

 impregnated with the saliva of a mad dog; and a 

 ease is mentioned in which the disease originated 

 from an attempt to untie with the teeth a knot in a 

 cord by which one of these diseased animals had 

 been fastened. Horses, oxen, sheep and other ani- 

 mals are said to have contracted the disease by 

 eating the straw upon which mad dogs have lain. 

 We should therefore be very careful if any ani- 

 mal should have an attack of hydrophobia to be 

 on the lookout in handling an animal or anything 

 which it may have come in contact with, in case 

 that any of the poison should touch any abraded 

 surface or mucous membrane. A great many per- 

 sons who are bitten are never attacked with the 

 disease. It is possible that some systems are not 

 susceptible to the poison. It is said that some ani- 

 mals are more poisonous than others. In man or 

 animals that are bitten by the wolf a much larger 

 portion is attacked than in those bitten by the dog; 

 this is, however, explained by asserted facts that 

 the wolf generally flies at the naked part, as the 

 face and hands, while the dog more often bites 

 through the clothing and in this way the teeth 

 may be wiped off before reaching the skin, and the 

 hair of animals may to a certain extent do the 

 same, but the percentage of deaths of animals 

 bitten by the same dog is much greater than that 

 of man; of one hundred and fourteen cases of per- 

 sons bitten by mad wolves, collected by Dr. Wat- 

 son, sixty-seven died; while of fifteen persons bit- 



