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malady cannot but be evident, when we consider its present pre- 

 valence, and how difficult it has boen to eradicate from the public 

 mind the errors and prejudices with which the consideration of it 



Is it not also equally true, that as experience and observation led us to distin- 

 guish between the pathognomonic signs as they appeared in the human and brute 

 constitution, the names applied to the two diseases became effectually disjoined ? 

 Neither in the obscurity of the last century, or the more early periods, was 

 canine madness so called, when specifically noticed. It was only so nominated 

 cursorily, and in common parlance, by persons not even pretending to scientific 

 discrimination in general, or conversant with the complaint in particular. 

 Et s'il etoit possible de soulever le voile dont le temps a convert la science 

 des medecins grecs, nous verrions probablement qu'ils n'ont point confondu 

 I'hydrophobie simple avec la rage, puisqu'ils les designoient par deux expres- 

 sions tres-exactes, hydrophobia, horreur de I'eau; et eijnolysson, rage du chien. 

 — Trait, de la Rage, par Mons. Trolliet, p. 267. It may be added, also, that we 

 have innumerable instances of names borrowed from the human and applied 

 to the brute, and vice versa, from an ideal resemblance ; although the designa- 

 tion might be essentially as completely a misnomer as the present. Towards 

 Mr. Youatt, Dr. P. acted with even a greater want of urbanity ; for an intimacy 

 in early life of Dr. Parry with Mr. Youatt's father might have lessened the 

 severity, even if it could not ward oflT the justness, of his criticism. Yet, with a 

 feeling that does Mr. Youatt infinite credit, his retort is thus mildly couched : 

 — "Let this uncandid review, and gross mis-statement of some cases published 

 by me fifteen years ago, be now forgotten. The wound rankled for awhile, 

 and the more so, as inflicted by the friend and fellow- student of my father. 

 He now sleeps in peace. He was a scientific practitioner and a good man." 

 The cases alluded to by Mr. Youatt, and which were so unmercifully handled, 

 appeared in the Medical and Physical Journal and in the London Medical Re- 

 pository ; and were drawn with that perspicuity and accviracy which mark his 

 (Mr. Youatt's) other scientific productions. That they were faithful portraits of 

 the disease, his extensive opportunities and habits of observation will vouch, 

 and every other author acknowledges ; yet Dr. P. denies the existence of every 

 one of these as a true instance of rabies : on the contrary, so well versed does 

 he think himself in canine pathology, that, by the mere statement of symptoms, 

 he takes on himself to pronounce some of thera Bronchitis, some Pneumonia, 

 and others pure Infiammation of the Fauces ! ! ! What opinion must Dr. 

 Parry have of his own discrimination, who could thus, on the questionable evi- 

 dence of one or two cases only, and those most unsatisfactorily examined, ques- 

 tion and deny the united testimonies of two persons, who could have no interest 

 in deceiving, but every stimulus to ofler the truth, and whose united oppor- 



