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chordy. Looking at him a little more closely, I found two spots of 
acute mange upon his back. The irritation produced by this cuta- 
neous disease is often dreadful. I thought that he might be sadly 
tormented by it, and he was feverish. I ordered him ten grains of 
calomel — in fact, he ate it from my hand in a piece of meat, 
I had not got within ten yards of him on the following day 
ere I recognized the countenance of the rabid dog. It is true he 
wagged his tail when I spoke to him, and offered himself to be 
caressed ; but there was no mistaking the case. I inquired as to 
the possible mischief that had been done ; and you may suppose 
how much lighter my heart was when I was told that no one had 
been near him. I am not sure that I suffered in the opinion of 
my employer, at least he never gave me the slightest hint that I 
had ; but it was a long time before I forgave myself. I told 
you, in my last Lecture, that, on another occasion, I endangered 
the lives of three persons — that of the man who gave the dog 
the medicine which I ordered — of the youth who had suffered 
him to lick a sore finger, and of a child whose sore ear he licked 
in the interval between the morning and the afternoon : at the 
latter period I discovered my carelessness, or my blunder. 
A more serious one . — An assistant did worse. I was absent 
from home. A dog was brought from Hampstead to be exa- 
mined. Either there was much real obscurity in the case, or my 
young man was culpably inattentive. He failed to recognize the 
real malady, and gave the man some medicine for the animal, 
and sent him away. As they returned across the fields, the dog 
made several attempts to escape. He and the man quite fell out 
about it. The dog did escape, and was never heard of again. 
The man had been bitten in the struggle, and, six or seven weeks 
afterwards, died hydrophobous. The physician who attended 
the poor fellow was exceedingly indignant, and threatened pub- 
licly to expose the incompetency or the shameful carelessness of 
my establishment. He however relented, and 1 escaped many a 
censure. 
Importance of this part of the subject . — I mention these cir- 
cumstances, in connexion with the present part of the subject, 
and in connexion also with the poor fellow whom vou first saw 
on Monday night, that a useful lesson may be imprinted on your 
minds. I can read the human countenance a little, and I 
saw that it was only a feeling of courtesy which prevented some 
of the medical pupils, whom I have in my minds eye, and one or 
two of my veterinary pupils — who they are I leave to themselves — 
I say it was only a feeling of courtesy which restrained them 
from some unequivocal expression of their belief that I was de- 
ceived in my case. They will never forget, after this, that on 
