ANIMAL PATHOLOGY. 
I shall have presently to observe, that, at the commencement of 
the disease, the attachment of the dog for his owner often seems 
to strengthen, and the natural expression of that fondness is by 
licking the hands or the face, or any part he can get at. Ladies 
and men too occasionally are apt to permit him, when in health, 
to indulge in this filthy habit with regard to them. It is a filthy 
habit, and it is a very dangerous one too. Wherein consists the 
danger of a rabid dog? That the virus generated under the in- 
fluence of this malady is occasionally deposited on a wounded or 
abraded surface, and in process of time generates a similar dis- 
ease in the person who has been so inoculated by it. Therefore it 
is that the surgeon so anxiously inquires of the person that has 
been bitten, and of all those to whom the dog has had access, 
“ Has he been accustomed to lick you? Have you any sore places 
about you that can by possibility have been licked by him?” If 
there are, the person is in fully as much danger as if he had been 
bitten, and it is quite as necessary to destroy the part with which 
the virus may have come in contact. Mrs. Duff lost her life by 
suffering her dog to lick a pimple on her chin. 
Anecdotes . — A few years ago I saw a dog belonging to a lady 
then residing at Pimlico. It was decidedly rabid. It had been na- 
turally good-tempered, and that temper was not much changed by 
the disease, except that he had made two pretended attacks on the 
feet of a gentleman that came in, but did not bite or attempt to 
bite. He once eagerly darted at my legs, but he only pretended 
to bite them. He then tried to make it up, licking my trousers ; 
and when I endeavoured to beat him off with my glove, he seized 
it, and shook it and tore it. This was the whole extent of his fero- 
city. His mistress, therefore, was not bitten ; but she had suf- 
fered her favourite to lick her face and lips, and she confessed that 
he had done so repeatedly within the last few days. Her surgeon 
told her that it was necessary to apply the caustic freely over the 
whole surface of her lips. She was a very handsome woman, and, 
as was quite natural, she knew it. So far as any thing ludicrous 
could mingle with such a case, it was laughable to hear how 
closely she questioned the surgeon as to the degree of blemish 
which the caustic would leave. He was a little of a wag, and 
by way of punishment, as he afterwards told her, for having 
indulged in so disgusting a habit, he did not give her a very 
satisfactory denial of possible seams and discoloration, and I 
know not what, which she feared. The contest between the fear of 
hydrophobia and impairment of beauty lasted nearly two days. 
She then submitted to the operation. The caustic was applied 
freely, severely, but not more so than the case required. Twenty- 
four hours afterwards she had a very pretty pair of black and 
