MINUTES OF EVIDENCE ON CANINE MADNESS. 
035 
After its first introduction it passed every day more easily, 
until at length it could be introduced with the greatest facility. 
By these means, the stricture which appeared to have formed 
where the tube enters the chest was overcome, and since that 
time the probang has been occasionally introduced by the owner. 
To assist the mare in swallowing, the dilated part is now aided 
in its action by pressure, which is accomplished by means of a 
collar similar to that of a martingal, which has a pad attached 
to it, and it is fixed to the roller by straps properly adjusted to 
keep up a regular degree of pressure. 
26th Sept .—I now find the dilated portion greatly diminished 
in calibre; the wound nearly closed, and the mare is lively and 
in good spirits, taking daily exercise, and her regular allowance 
of corn and hay. 
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE 
BEFORE A COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE BILL TO 
PREVENT THE SPREADING OF 
CANINE MADNESS. 
As several medical gentlemen, both human and veterinary prac¬ 
titioners, were examined before this committee, and their evidence 
may be supposed to contain the substance of present medical 
knowledge and opinion on this very important subject, we shall, 
in the two or three succeeding numbers, insert the minutes of 
their evidence. 
We begin with that of Messrs. Coleman, Brodie, and Morgan, 
because it bears on a point discussed in the present number, and 
includes all that was elicited in favour of the occasional spon¬ 
taneous origin of rabies.— Edit. 
Edward Coleman , Esq. called in and examined. 
The (ommittee are informed you have had considerable expe¬ 
rience on the subject of canine madness?—1 have had many 
years’ experience, and have seen a great deal of the disease. 
Have the goodness to state what has occurred to you ?—1 have 
made up my mind on one point, in which many people, however, 
are of a different opinion; that the disease is often produced 
without contagion. 
Spontaneously?—Yes; but when I say spontaneously, I be¬ 
lieve that to arise in consequence of the fact of their being 
