ANIMAL PATHOLOGY. 
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eyes glared like fire — a bloody foam dropped from his mouth — 
he attacked every insensible object which stood in his way, and 
at his incessant howl every heart quailed. Each negro ran to 
catch up his children, and to seek safety in flight; and no one 
thought of resisting the foe, until an old negro exclaimed, * It 
is better that one should perish !’ and, armed with a cutlass, he 
presented himself before the brute. The monster sprung on him 
in an instant, and by his immense weight, and his strength, 
quadrupled by the excitation of the disease, bore him to the 
ground, and then he tore him in every part of his exposed and 
naked frame. The slave contrived, at length, to liberate himself, 
and with one fortunate blow pierced the bloodhound to the 
heart. He was covered with wounds, and in his own mind, and 
that of his grateful companions, was doomed to a dreadful death. 
The remedy on which greatest confidence was placed in that 
country was applied. Every wound was filled with gunpowder, 
which was set fire to, and a course of mercurial medicine was 
commenced. Several who had been bitten by the dog died in 
various parts of the neighbourhood ; but this brave fellow was 
spared and, five-and-twenty years afterwards, the veterinary 
surgeon from whom I quote, saw him on the same plantation, 
entrusted with the management of the whole of it, and almost 
idolized by every negro on it. 
In the country, the cur and the lurcher, almost constantly 
employed, when well, in scenes of petty cruelty and mischief, 
are, when rabid, the chief propagators of this disease. In large 
towns the fighting dogs are most to be feared. The noble 
Newfoundland dog, whose education makes him useful, gentle, 
and attached, is often harmless from the commencement to the 
termination of the malady. The pug, with his peculiar individual 
regard, is seldom much to be feared — nor the larger spaniel, who is 
not likely to be trained to much ferocity: but the little spaniel — 
the ladies’ lap-dog — whose attachment is so artificially and with 
so much labour concentrated on his mistress, although possibly 
harmless to her, so far as the actual bite is concerned, is incon- 
ceivably dangerous to every other person in the house. Almost 
the whole depends on the previous disposition and habits of the 
animal. This is an important lesson, and too many there are 
who need for it to be deeply impressed upon them. 
The Influence of habitual Temper continued . — It is the same 
with the human being. Dr. Elliotson gives an account of one 
of his patients, whose education had been neglected, and whose 
temper had always been bad, who unfortunately was bitten by a 
rabid dog, and became hydrophobous. He would throw himself 
into the most furious passion, collect the saliva in his hands. 
