34 INSANITY IN THE LOWER ANIMALS. 



2. The fatal throwing of riders. 



3. Deaths from real or spurious hydrophobia. 



4. Goring to death by bulls. 



5. Fatal results of loss of presence of mind in man. 



6. Murder by rogue elephants. 



7. Plunder or destruction of man's dwellings and crops 

 by the same animals. 



B. In or to the animals themselves. 



8. Self-destruction, sometimes wholesale in panic from 

 sympathy and imitation. 



9. The injury of other valuable animals belonging to man, 

 Danger and dangerousness to man are not confined, how- 

 ever, to 



1. Insanity, or certain forms thereof; nor to 



2. Man-eaters or slayers, such as the elephant, tiger and 

 lion. 



It arises equally from 



3. Alarm, terror, fright, or their resultant panic. 



4. The fury or ferocity of rutting, parturition, incubation, 

 maternity. 



5. The despair of bay, the desperation and courage of 

 even naturally quiet, harmless animals, when attacked and 

 wounded. 



6. The impulses, natural or morbid, of captive feral ani- 

 mals, a risk frequently illustrated in menageries, especially 

 under provocation by man. 



7. Sensory defects, especially of vision. 



8. Delusion. 



9. Vices or peculiarities of habit of various kinds. 



10. Irritability and loss of temper, and the assaults- 

 biting or kicking by which it is so apt to express itself. 



11. Phrenitis, or other acute diseases, attended with 

 morbid motor phenomena. 



12. In general, all diseases accompanied by, or leading 

 to, change of temper or the development of vicious propensi- 

 ties. 



Man exacts from fellow man a warranty of the physical 

 character of such animals as the horse. But a guarantee or 

 certification of its mental or moral character is at least quite 



