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from any other remote causes. I will, therefore, 

 merely refer my reader to those interesting pages, 

 without copying out their contents, as it is far from 

 my wish to crowd this book with information that can 

 be so easily procured elsewhere, or to gain to myself 

 the imputation which has been laid to the charge of 

 Mr. Gillman, on his " Prize Dissertation," of wearino- 

 plumes gathered from the Memoir written by Mr. 

 Blaine, upon this disease, and which was afterwards 

 inserted in " Rees' CyclopBedia." 



At a later period, we find Mr. Youatt, who, in his 

 early life, was a partner of Mr, Blaine, bringing for- 

 ward the subject in an enthusiastic and masterly 

 manner, in the pages of the " Veterinarian ;" and by 

 the scientific way in which he has exposed the absurd 

 errors by which it has been surrounded, we may look 

 forward with increased hope, that the day is not very 

 far distant, when a thorough knowledge in every 

 branch of a disease which is more to be dreaded than 

 any other in the whole range of veterinary practice, 

 will not only be firmly established, but that some 

 certain remedy for it may also be discovered, to which 

 it may eventually yield. Mr. Youatt, like his pre- 

 decessor, denies the possibility of the disease being 

 propagated except by inoculation, and which he dis- 

 tinctly proves by a long course of well-digested 

 reasoning, and undeniably authenticated anecdotes.* 

 Of the numerous instances of rabies showing itself in 

 sporting dogs, and which have come within the pale 

 of mine own knowledge, the few following will suf- 



* See " Veterinarian," for July, 1838. 



