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self Informs ITS, it is very likely indeed that lie may 

 have seen a dog afflicted with this disease; hut, in 

 the above assertion. Ire shows his ignorance as to the 

 nature of it. Wherever this " now and then" has 

 occurred, it has always been in the very last stage of 

 the disease, when the animal has almost run himself 

 down, and his dissolution is at hand. At this period, 

 mad dogs have been known sometimes to cress rivers, 

 but never to drink. As to dogs drinking in the first 

 stage 'of the disease, which Thornhill's assertion seems 

 to imply, it is certainly a mistake : I have had oppor- 

 tunities of trying the experiment many times. 



Some years ago, a pack of fox-hounds belonging 

 to a gentleman in Cheshire was infected with this 

 disease ; how the disorder first got among them is 

 unknown 5 but every " now and then" one or mote 

 manifested the usual symptoms ; and as the pack 

 was very valuable, no means we're spared to preserve 

 it, and every method tried to cure the already disor- 

 dered dogs to no purpose. They were well secured, 

 the moment they showed the slightest symptom, in 

 ordei to try the effect of different medicines pre- 

 scribed for the hydrophobia, which, however, proved 

 useless, and the whole was at length destroyed. The 

 aversion to water was uniformly testified throughout; 

 and I have found it an unerring proof in every in- 

 stance. 



Among the various prescriptions for this disease, 

 DO one perhaps lias been more celebrated, with less 

 merit, than the 'Gmsltirk medicine. It has "been 



