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spring. Then would the traffic be safe for all the North. 

 The time would vary for the different States, but the ear- 

 lier or later traffic for the extreme north should be by di- 

 rect route without intermediate unloading. A general re- 

 striction of this sort, with the expense levied on aU the 

 States, would be more economical and satisfactory than a 

 supervision by each State of its own frontier. 



Treatment should never be called for. It may, however, 

 be resorted to with less danger than in the case of a true 

 plague. In some cases emollient drinks and enemas, soft 

 food, and stimulating fever medecines have been followed 

 by recovery. Chlorate of potassa, nitre, iodide of potassi- 

 um, and carbolic acid have evidently been of advantage. 

 Wet-sheet packing, as for Lung-fever, should be beneficial, 

 and refrigerant or stimulating diuretics (digitalis, nitre, or 

 nitrous ether,) according to the indications of the partic- 

 ular case. Peculiarities in different cases would demand 

 a variation of treatment. The diet throughout should be 

 of soft mashes, and a return to ordinary fibrous aliment 

 made slowly and carefully, as being liable to cut off by 

 gastro-entritis. 



CAOTNB MADNESS. RABIES. (HYDEOPHOBIA). 



A specific disease supposed to arise spontaneously in the 

 genus eanis (dog, wolf, fox,) and in the cat, but transmis- 

 sible by inoculation to aU the domestic animals and to 

 man. It is marked by disorders of intellectual, emotion- 

 al, and nervous functions, altered habits, irritable temper, 

 optical delusions, spasms of the muscles of the eyeballs 

 and throat, paralysis, and more or less fever. 



Causes. Inoculation by bite is the usual (almost inva- 

 riable) cause, yet cases manifestly arise spontaneously in 

 most countries. Season, climate, abuse, privation of wa- 

 ter, improper food, muzzling, etc., have no effect further 

 than they serve to produce a febrile state and hasten the 

 development of the disease when the seeds are already 

 implanted in the system. A constantly increasing mass 



