MISCELLANEA. 
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We are requested to state that the new Register of the 
Members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons is now 
published, and may be had on application to the Registrar, at 
the Institute, 10, Red Lion Square. The price of the Register 
is one shilling, and the postage sixpence. 
THE TURNER TESTIMONIAL. 
The Committee met on the 13th November, when it was 
resolved — 
“That a portrait of T. Turner, Esq., first President of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, be obtained, and 
placed in the Institute of that body. 
“ Further, that the subscription list be allowed to remain 
open until the end of December. 
MISCELLANEA. 
EDITORIAL REMARKS 
To a letter dated June 10 th, 1851. 
“ Mad Dog !” — This alarming cry would seem to have 
been at least prematurely dinned into the ears of the frightened 
public by such a very early ukase against the liberty and 
comfort of the canine race, issued by orders of the Mayor. 
But if there be any truth in the revelations of modern science, 
it appears that such a thing as a mad dog is a popular delu- 
sion, and one of a very serious nature, the dog, in fact, not 
being at all subject to the hitherto terrible disease of hydro- 
phobia. Such is the view of the matter put forth with much 
ability by Mr. Litt, veterinary surgeon, of this town, in a 
letter in our present number ; and by a singular coincidence 
an opinion confirmatory to the fullest extent of Mr. Litt’s 
view has been recently expressed by Professor Dick, at a 
meeting of the town council of Edinburgh, which will be 
found in our columns under the head “ Scotland. 55 If those 
opinions be correct — and they are surely entitled to every 
consideration — the practice of muzzling those animals at all 
— which is at best but an uncertain safeguard to man, and a 
very irritating punishment to the dog — may be dispensed 
with entirely, and the apprehension of one of the most hideous 
maladies known banished for ever from men’s minds. 
