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It may coine when called, wag the taif, and seem 

 pleased with attention, yet it is very common for them 

 on a sudden to turn and snap. This, when it happens 

 to a dog that is at other times good tempered, ought 

 to be considered as a vei'y strengthening help to a 

 conviction that he is aifected with madness. 



Among sportsmen there are described two varieties 

 of the complaint, raging and dumb madness; but 

 whoever sees as much of the complaint as I have done, 

 and watches it as attentively, will find that there is 

 no real ground for such a distinction ; at least, that 

 the distiuctiou is not sulirciently deiined to make it 

 at all to be depended on. We have proved that the 

 wild raging kind is very uncommon, unless a dog is 

 hunted into it by pursuit and fear,, and frequently, on 

 the other hand, when he has sufficient irritability to 

 make him an object of danger, still he shall be dumb; 

 and agaip, that frequently in those who have the gene- 

 ral term of dumb madness applied to them, there are 

 irritability, restlessness, and even continued howling. 

 In fact, so immense are the varieties, that no twa 

 cases are alike; nor is there one symptom that any 

 complaint can put on, but what is to be seen in this 

 most variable disease- The princi|)al differences that 

 can be fairly noticed are what arise from the part 

 that is more immediately the seat of the complaint. 

 When the disease exists principally in the bowels, it 

 produces an affection of the throat and neck ; the 

 tongue lolls out, and there appears a swelling and en- 

 largement of all the parts about the mouth, throat, 

 and swallow ; with greater heaviness, stupor, distress, 

 and weakness of the hinder parts. On the contrary, 

 when the lungs are the principal seat of tlie complaint, 



