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them,, as it is, an excellent tiling to prevent diseases, 

 It is advisable, occasionally, to bleed them. If at 

 any time you are suspicious of a dog going mad, in- 

 stantly secure him. 



There are no less than seven sorts of madness, two 

 of which, the hot burning madness, and the running 

 madness, are regarded as incurable, and are dan- 

 gerous in the highest degree, the effects of which are 

 too well and too fatally known to need a description 

 in this place. All animals they bite, and draw blood 

 from, will have the same distemper; they generally 

 seize on all they meet, but particularly on their own 

 species ; and it is singular that all dogs have a dread 

 of them, and fly, if possible, at their approach. 

 However courageous a dog may be, on being attack- 

 ed by one that is niad, lie will cry out, and make 

 every effort to disengage himself and run away. It 

 is said, that a mad dog always runs straight ahead ; 

 and should any person perceive a dog approaching 

 which he is apprehensive of being so, all he has to do 

 is to turn out of the road, and the animj.1, if mad, 

 will not follow. I have twice adopted this method, 

 and have found it to answer. 



The symptoms of this disease present themselves 

 in various forms, but are easily discerned. The fol- 

 lowing are generally the forerunners of it : When. a 

 dog becomes melancholy, droops his head, forbears 

 eating, seems to forget his former habits, and as he 

 runs snatches at every thing : if he often looks up- 

 wards, and that his tail at its setting on be rather 



