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case. The practitioner must never arrive at conclusions 

 hastily, he must, with due precautions, thoroughly examine 

 the animal and not decide that rabies is present without 

 ample evidence in support of this view. 



For the seizure of mad dogs several mechanical means 

 have been devised, one of which is shown in Peuch and 

 Toussaint's 'Surgery;' the figures of these will explain 

 themselves. 



Fig. 14. — Pince collier pour saisir le Chien. (After Peuoh and Toussaint.) 



Fig. 15. — Bouley*s sticks and rope. 



It must be remembered that the disease has been con- 

 veyed by saliva smeared over the coat,* by the face of a 

 human being having been licked by a mad dog, and even 

 by still more obscure methods. Thus Dr. Evans, in the 

 ' Journal of the United Service Institution of India ' for 

 1883 (July), mentions a case of fatal hydrophobia in a 

 tanner, traceable to currying the skin of a cow which died 

 from rabies in London, Canada "West, in 1866. In making 

 post-mortem examinations of the carcases of mad dogs every 

 precaution should be observed, although it has been 



* Galtier has shown that rabific saliva remains virulent in drinking-water 

 even twenty-four hours after the diseased dog has tried to drink. This 

 source of possible conveyance of the disease should he carefully avoided. 



