1831,] 
Note on the Chirk. 
387 
The following usual symptoms of Hydrophobia were not observed : 
1st. — Neither the deer or dogs had at any stage of the disease a dread or antipa- 
thy to water. 
2nd. — There was nothing like ferocious savagencss ; on the contrary, the animals 
retained to the last their usual good temper and were sensible of kind treatment. 
Having seen many animals, as well as men, attacked by this disease, I lx g to be 
allowed to add the following remarks. In no instance have I known infection to 
take place when the parts was immediately cauterised by the action ot lire ; among 
many cases occurring within my own knowledge, I beg to cite the following . A. 
sepoy and two bull dogs were bit at the same time by the same dog, the dogs 
immediately had their wounds burnt with red hot charcoal. I saw them alive and 
well five years after the occurrence. The sepoy was torn in the breast, and merely 
had a common plaster put over the wound, which soon healed ; he also ate a piece 
of scarlet cloth, which at his request, 1 provided him with ; Ilic natives think tins 
a certain cure, and why should we laugh at them for such an idea ; Its efficacy is 
probably as good as the far famed Arm's Kirk nostrum, which to tins day is much 
sought after by civilized Englishmen : in all ages aud countries we may hnd inur i 
to ridicule, even the sage Pliny recommends for a horse that lias the gripes, » 
shew him a duck swimming in a pond, and when at this day we see the gentry of 
England running after Mr. Long, who reaps the benefit of .heir crrdnh.y a h. 
rate of £ 10,000 per year, wc may have charity to find an escusi or so n 
credulity on the part of an unsophisticated Hindoo. The first symptoms of the 
disease appeared in the sepoy in about 30 days after he was hit, he i comply , ncU 
a pain in his shoulder and want of appetite, for winch « was hied » go «* 
immediately; the Surgeon who then attended hnnno. being 
been hit by a dog, discharged him from the hosp.tal, he won came back under 
decided symptoms of Hydrophobia, and died m a few days. 
J jo almost always the case trom tne mu w a 
Where the wounds are deep, (as is almost ) 
Jackal,) 1 have known them to be 61 ea^ed twice, and no had 
much as possible, and the powdei tet , ; of coursc |„ n!ir caustic 
effects were experienced either from t ie \v oum distance from medical 
may be better, but it is not always to be had on the spots 
advice aud attendance. 
Bu lands he hr, Sept. 1831. 
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y Note on the Chirk. 
To the Editor of the Gleanings in Scien 
I am indebted to your 25th No. for a kn0 "^ following obrfi- 
arks upon the Chirfi. These remarks have suggested to me 
itions : , • w00 ds, and was addicted to 
If jElian’s Kemas had a white tail, reSl . . that animal lias the tail coloar- 
vimming, it cannot be tlie Chirfi of libet ; sm neV er— so far a> my mt .r- 
l (like the proximate parts) upon the upper su ’ . Its peculiar habitat 
ation goes, lives in woods, and is not prone , j3j, 0 te or 'libet, one ol the 
the Eastern portion of the trans-Himilayan p » . g nevcr found i„ any of the 
irestand driest regions on the face of the ear sn0W y ones, up to the ml-' oi 
s-Hitn&layan mountainous tracts, including amidst the mountains de- 
modus ; nor, to the best of m> present Tibetan plains, 
ending from the crest of the Hemdchal into the Tibet 
