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in cattle of any kind. About forty human persons have taken this 

 remedy, and in every instance it has succeeded equally as with ani- 

 mals : but candor obliges us to notice that in a considerable pro- 

 portion of these, other means were used, as the actual or potential 

 cautery : but in all the animals other means were purposely omit- 

 ted. That this remedy therefore has a preventive quality, is un- 

 questionable, and now perfectly established ; for there was not tho 

 smallest doubt of the animals mentioned either having been bitten, 

 or of the dog being mad who bit them, as great pains were in every 

 instance taken to ascertain these points. 



261. To prevent canine madness. Pliny recommends worming 

 of dogs ; and from his time to the present it has had, most de- 

 servedly says Daniel its advocates. He tells us, that he had various 

 opportunities of proving the usefulness of this practice, and re- 

 commends its general introduction. The fact, however, is, that 

 taking out the worm has nothing to do with annihilating the dis- 

 order, although it will most certainly hinder the dog seized with 

 it from doing any hurt to man or beast. A late author asserts, he 

 had three dogs that were wormed, bit by mad dogs at three se- 

 veral periods, yet notwithstanding they all died mad they did 

 not bite, nor do any mischief, that being determined to make a 

 full experiment, he shut one of the mad dogs up in a kennel, and 

 put to him a dog he did not value the mad dog often run at the 

 other to bite him, but his tongue was so swelled that he could 

 not make his teeth meet ; the dog was kept in the kennel until 

 the mad one died, and was purposely preserved for two years af- 

 terwards, to note the effect, but he never ailed any thing, although 

 no remedies were applied to check any infection that might have 

 been received from the contact of the dog. The writer has had 

 various opportunities of proving the usefulness of worming, and 

 inserts three of the most striking instances, under the hope of in- 

 ducing its general practice. A terrier-bitch went mad, that was 

 kept in a kennel with forty couple of hounds ; not a single hound 

 was bitten, nor was she seen to offer to bite. The bitch being of 

 a peculiar sort, every attention was paid to the gradations of the 

 disease (which were extremely rapid) minutely noted ; the hy- 

 drophobia was fast approaching before she was separated from 

 the hounds, and she died the second day after ; at first warm milk 

 was placed before her, which she attempted to lap, but the throat 

 refused its functions ; from this period she never tried to eat or 

 drink, seldom rose up, or even moved, the tongue swelled very 

 much, and long before her death the jaws were distended by it. 

 A spaniel was observed to be seized by a strange dog, and was 

 oit in the lip ; the servant who ran up to part them narrowly es- 



