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 keepers, and grooms; and among other vulgar 

 errors is detailed the mode of extracting the worm 

 from under the tongue. It may be remarked as a 

 :proof of the literary liberality of that work, that the 

 articles which were furnished gratuitously, and had a 

 claim to originality, have no acknowledged author; 

 Avhile those which have been harded down by long tra- 

 ;dition have the names of their respective authors as- 

 signed them, 



A third very dangerous prejudice prevails relative 

 ito madness, which arises from the popular and more 

 common name of madness, which is almost as much 

 a misnomer as the hydrophobia. From the term mad 

 <]og, persons naturally suppose that a dog to be affect- 

 ed with l!ie complaint must necessarily be wild and 

 ^furious, and in every written description it is so made 

 -out ; but so far is this from being the case, that in 

 fhardly any one instance did 1 ever observe a total 

 .alienation of the mind, and in very few have the men- 

 ttal faculties been disturbed : on the contrary, they 

 -commonly know the voice of their master, and are 

 obedient to it, frequently to the vei^ last moments of 

 :their existence. 



Among the other eiToneous prejudices that prevail 

 relative to the disease, it is not one of the least hurtful 

 'that it is universally supposed that other animals besides 

 the dog, becoming rabid, can entail it. 1 believe that 

 no rabid animal but the dog, and perhaps his prototypes 

 the fox and wolf, is capable of producing madness ia 

 others by bite. In no other animal is there any in- 

 crease of saliva, or any disposition to bite, unless that 

 ;happens to be its natural mode of attack; md la. 



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