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seizure may often, especially within our islands, give 
cause for seme Her Bees ope Cases to the point 
shall ET shortly be be 
Moreover, the a ual prevalence of Wopo 
o European countries only. 
an n found he oie a rity occurring in South 
n N r a Chile an order 
y. 
coat showed itself time after time, as if it had taken 
root there. as been remarked that certain vil- 
on a in Engla in like ma 
subject to this visitation than others. 
hand, ng re are countries which appear o be quite 
free fro en in South America iti is stated to 
havi i teen unkno 
in Central America, 
nga 
naturally suggesting the question—Would it be pos 
sible to stamp it o in the British Isles? 
N 
ote pea thus favoured by exemption 
are all of t or countries; which 
forth, secondly, the fact, that canine madness i 
not confin er. The. dog days are not the 
only mad-d days. In France, terrible and 
erou occur even in e of winter 
In winter, therefore, danger from hydrophobia must 
not be regarded as 2 enn Thiel, aycraphotvs 
means the dread of w rsion to, or a 
horror of, — may exist without the’ pres laine fr 
true canine Its existence, therefore, in a patient 
does not necoumrily imply a fatal 
peless s condi- 
tion of that patient. Further, 
eats are that aren affected ; but 
brah the 
‘who | heard , it is time to keep an 
him and be on “you 
H can the aiene remain n lat tent? 
serious EE whi h M. Henri d Parle, in the 
Sm “nal des ee has recently yore voured to 
n be ge 
ate. n bitte 
es P dange >i is a po the iat import. 
has hitherto been admitted—and M. de P. t inks 
it not far from the rg io if no rabid 
appeared several months subsequent to the bite 
there is nothing further to ti herria ended. Statis 
en in different de of France have ara 
results which ap con e respecting the of 
i h 
not pn up for lost; bende 
trated beneath the skin, and contagious 
principle must fall upon conditions suitable to render 
it active. The chances of escape are considerably 
ncreas no nee vaa e is felt two months ze 
the bite. aa ing t 
o the last inquiry made 
France, out o isi, seventy produced rabid 
symptoms within the course of sixty days. After the 
ninetieth day, the pro in favour of com- 
In Decemeber, 1871, a little bitch of which he was 
exceedingly fond had bitten him deeply. He had 
ur 
hi 
her to punish her, but she bit = also. Confin 
a sap imag Bo gta A sed food and d rink, and after a 
d of ee) A X. then made 
rops of prussic 
ieur X. two 
well. mkt gT ammonia 
m 
a 
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ao 
4 
F 
no doubt that A Tittle ‘bitch was really mad, for a 
pup, to which she had recently given birth, and 
which she had licked, ag ~ mad afew ied later. 
This accident weighe 2s min S 
as completely to paes his spirits. piee 
K me on and no e y erous sympto red ; 
une 18 of the 
felt pen lassitude, great weakness, an 
sleep. Without acquainting anybody wit 
intention, wes the pretext that he had to 
ent straight, alone, to the Maison de 
ge got 
a man i 
t a Ww. ne ri araa — 
excesses, with no predisposition to insanity, acquir 
itary, is y seized with e 
dies in three days. From this Dr. Féréol concludes 
both that X. died of true canine madness, and that 
the ag sg - the disease may last septiky 
nearly th 
The q m. on y ais rais ar A is tg a cannot, 
evidently, be Aa S 
ence, ays do their work, or becom 
S usted, o e or. fi 
Ea 
hydrophobia do occur sev: 
Then why no 
te ached, tik t the 
bottom, is only s is alm 
he question, for, in ayori it pint firs on- 
strated that na cases signalised are ral ike "that 
ophob 
related by M , cases of rabid 
cafe “of in mF se ome body i is no 
eee. d legend of the piegne) is only too true, 
“ Plague, Ka an st slain en,’ one. 
“ No,” answers Plague; ‘‘I hate slain 10,000, an 
e has slain all rest.” Alas ! yes, it is so. 
evil il come. Men 
in her | 
The fear of evil in 
pa and body pokig bee ding to the impres- 
sion of a fixed idea. 
tinued. us 
to haye been developed u der the i f 
ive imaginations. M. Brouardel has even desig- 
nated a special form of nosomania under the name e of 
imaginary hydrophobia. 
Dr. Chateau, secretary of the Medico-practical 
when he was chief of the clinical department 
Dieu, : 
ing dog. He enters the Salle Sainte Jonae, where 
M. Demarquay cauterises the woun red-hot 
ron. Guérin leaves, saying that he shall be back 
fore six weeks ar , to die in the service. In 
e 
wa E days afterwards Guérin arrives ex xceedingly 
swallow srl and the sight of brilliant 
c 
The patient, reassured, drinks, eats, and is soon cured, 
It is therefore incontestable that popen plays an 
al s might be 
nsanity, or r appear t 
n , persons who & d been bitten by 
dogs that happened to be i te a eel state of over- 
i nown to die after exhibiting 
never- 
E 
ly, it is affirmed, gone 
m t the belief that, under 
certain circumstances of taupe ary over-excitement, 
the saliva of dogs may acquire dangerous prope para 
but until we know the exact nature of canin e madnes 
guari ]. The pre 4 considerations tend = augment 
the uae of the evil. The saliva of th g may 
contain, in certai of organic anearbanads or 
rough inheritance, a contagious principle There 
exist examples of persons being infected by simple 
caresses. Nor oncealed that obser- 
vations made b bla Constantin, Fitte, 
and Paul blished in the Recueil de 
ed 
Médecine Vétérinaire, place it beyond doubt that mad- 
ness may be spontaneously developed in dogs under 
ei ulfilled genesic ements. 
Teema. 
is to acquain 
usory, or worse. The gran 
everybody with the gravity of the Sel and to Saai 
tke knowledge of its symptoms as TESI as possible. 
rs of canine madness 
e P 
his 
Scientifiques, et peop e thè trouble every day 
to examine t dogs wi enti 
observe whether they mani 
as melancholy, f 
looks, and the like. It would be so 
avoid the danger. From the 
saliva ay it the contagious 
animal is more than ordinarily lined to 
master. rae ey clit vide agin tes xd 
takes place. 
It would be a good ae coma of every 
iste for dog-tax, the symptoms of canine madness 
were pri in order that ev might be 
eir 
description at a moment’s warning. strust the dog 
in whose w doings you observe any 
change—w see aE aiik ine in ad 
Be 
D 
g 
g. 
he sth "of a md M 
STi tata hein | ach 
of a polished object. Every yew the keg 
patien! o his m ienc 
For two years he coul ieni baat the sight ary a 
mirror. M, eau mentioned t 
ese fa 
who con maig that 
enly felt 
simila symptoms, which last a considerable time. 
renee, Ms to Dr. Finol, a raini ` voa and 
of 
sign of canine 
into the Charité, and leaves it, cured, in ‘one 
a = oe But she falls in by apes with a -re 
who persuades her that s had tr 
iydrophobia, She is taken ill 4 is obliged 5 
o the hospital, where she Vege dies. 
suffering fro 
