1028 CAUSES OF HYDROPHOBIA. 



sand cases? The story of Munchausen's cloak 

 is scarcely more incredible. But Mr. Youatt 

 thinks the contagious character of the disease has 

 been proved by the experiments of Magendie and 

 Breschet, who say they communicated it to a dog 

 by inoculation with the saliva of a man who had 

 hydrophobia. (See the Veterinarian, vol. iv. p. 

 225.) And Mr. Colman has proved that madness 

 is often produced in dogs during hot weather, by 

 confinement, exposure to their own breath, urine, 

 and other excrements, improper food, and from 

 too much or too little exercise. He does not, 

 however, assert, that it is never communicated 

 by inoculation. And he believes that typhus, jail 

 fever, the itch, the farcy and glanders in horses, 

 the roup in fowls, and the husk in pigs, are con- 

 tagious maladies, often produced by impure air, 

 filth, &c. without contagion. (Veterinarian, vol. 

 iii. p. 636.) 



Nor is there anything better established in the 

 history of diseases, than that hydrophobia is often 

 produced in the human species without contagion, 

 or the bite of a rabid animal. And there is reason 

 to believe that tetanus is often confounded with 

 hydrophobia, if, indeed, they are not modifica- 

 tions of the same disease. Brodie relates a well 

 authenticated case, published in the Philoso- 

 phical Transactions above a century ago, of a 

 man who died of hydrophobia a month after he 

 was bitten by a dog that was alive and well two 

 weeks before his death. Mr. Hutchinson also 



