ON RABIES CANINA, OR DOG MADNESS. 107 



fice to convince my readers that there is just reason 

 for entertaining the same opinion as Mr. Blaine and 

 Mr. Youatt, upon the almost certainty of the disease 

 being propagated by inoculation alone. What makes 

 the circumstances more extraordinary is, that they all 

 happened during the same year, namely, at the end 

 of the winter of 1835-6 ; which might give some 

 persons the idea that it must have been some kind of 

 epizootic by which the hounds were attacked, and not 

 by the real " rabies canina." But the fact, that only 

 one pack in each establishment was attacked, would, 

 I should suppose, with any reasonable person, set that 

 doubt at rest. At the close of the winter above-men- 

 tioned, the '' bitch pack" of the\yarwickshire hounds, 

 then under the management of Mr. Thornhill, showed 

 evident symptoms of madness, upon which they were 

 taken out no longer, but each individual was chained 

 up separate from the rest, so that there could be no 

 possibility of their biting each other. After the space 

 of about six weeks, ten couples died, or were destroyed, 

 in a state of the most raging madness. Amongst 

 the dog hounds, which formed another pack, and were 

 kept at the same kennels, but of course in separate 

 lodging-rooms and courts, there was not one single 

 instance of the malady showing itself, although they 

 had been fed from the same trough, breathed the same 

 air, and were exactly in the same state of condition, 

 having, previous to the malady breaking out, worked 

 alternate days. The disease had evidently been 

 introduced amongst them by inoculation, as it was a 

 well-known fact, that about three weeks or a month 

 prior to its first appearance, when hunting at that 



