234 MAD DOGS. 



bility first shews itself; I have never known 

 them to eat or lap after having dropped 

 their tongues. 



Whenever a dog is more lively than usual, 

 particularly if he raises his bristles on trifling 

 occasions, and seems unusually ready to 

 quarrel with other dogs, he should be confin- 

 ed; for these are the principal symptoms in 

 the early stage that characterize the disease. 

 It should be observed that dogs are subject 

 to various disorders like other animals, in 

 which these symptoms do not commonly at- 

 tend. As far as my observations go, they 

 induce me to think, that the communication 

 of the disease is confined to the canine spe- 

 cies, [perhaps including the feline] and by 

 them to men or animals by the insertion only 

 of saliva into a wound or abraded skin; I 

 cannot offer any proof of this, but I think it 

 is fair to conclude so, as no instance is re- 

 corded that I know of, of its having been 

 communicated by other animals, or by dogs 

 to other animals in a different way; but 



