50 DISEASES or DOGS. 



gle instant. I consider it a most providential eir- 

 cnm stance that none of my fanijly or myself were 

 bitten whilst she Aras labonring under all the 

 symptoms of madness ; and I attribute this to the 

 factj that the l)itch was of most gentle disposition : 

 had she been otherwise, it is more than likely that 

 some of us would have perished by hj^drophobia. 

 I seciu'ed her to a kennel with a chain, and she 

 immediately commenced gnawing the sides of it 

 so intently that she was insensible to all that was 

 passing aroimd her. Food was offered, and she 

 would take it into her mouth, but could not swal- 

 low it. The previous day she seemed to have lost 

 her sight in a great degree, and ran her head 

 against the chairs, &c., and she reeled and stag- 

 gered like a drunken man; she now staggered 

 about as far as her chain would permit, and, 

 though her sight was not entirely gone, it was 

 nearly so. She would snap at anything she hap- 

 pened to touch, and would occasionally attempt 

 to break away from her chain; she was still, at 

 times, very intent upon gnawing the side of her 

 kennel. She was recalled, in some measure, to 

 consciousness by my voice ; but in turning her 

 head to whence the sound proceeded she evidently 

 glared on vacancy. Occasionally she uttered a 

 sharp piercing yell, as if from pain, and was in in- 

 cessant involuntary — almost convulsive motion. 

 The next day she grew weaker, but all the symp- 



