636 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE ON CANINE MADNESS. 
exposed to their dung and urine, and to confinement, too much 
feed and too little exercise. 1 do not believe that carrion flesh is 
capable of producing it, but I think it arises more from being 
confined, tied up, and exposed to their own dung, and their own 
urine, and their own breath, and also from the want of proper 
exercise. I believe that with hounds in kennels that are properly 
attended to, it is rather an uncommon disease; but when the 
kennel has not been attended to, canine madness sometimes takes 
place, of which I know one instance in particular: the subscrip¬ 
tion pack of fox-hounds in Surrey had the disease to a consider¬ 
able extent, and there was one remarkable fact, that the dogs 
did not bite the bitches, nor the bitches bite the dogs. The kennel 
had been very much neglected; there was no water flowing through 
the kennel: I suggested improvements in that respect, and the 
disease for a length of time disappeared. 
In the cases you are now speaking to, have you examined the 
dog after its death in any case where the dog has not been 
bitten %—It is impossible to prove the negative : we cannot say 
the dog has not been bitten; but if it did always arise from the 
dog being bitten, how* came the first dog to be mad 1 But, inde¬ 
pendently of that fact it w ill be found, that in different parts of 
the country you hear nothing of hydrophobia, and then you 
hear of it in different parts of the country pretty nearly at the 
same time. Now there are many diseases highly contagious in 
themselves, but which are capable of being produced without 
contagion. The glanders can be thus produced—It is a contagious 
disease; and so is farcy; and yet it is a fact that these diseases 
are more frequently generated than propagated by contagion. 
The itch also is notoriously produced by filth, and when pro¬ 
duced, becomes contagious; so w ith ship fever and gaol fever, 
which, when they break out, become contagious; but they can be 
generated. 
Would the glanders be produced by inoculation in the case 
you refer to ?—I can mention one extraordinary instance, which 
w as in the Quiberon expedition: there w ere a great many horses 
examined prior to their going out, and not one of them had any 
apparent disease; they were put on board different transports; 
they encountered a hurricane ; they were obliged to put down 
the hatches; several horses w ere suffocated, and great numbers 
of them became glandered in consequence. At Dover, in the 
year 1796, where there was a great encampment, the govern¬ 
ment could not get stables to receive them late in the autumn: 
they built close and confined stables; and the most healthy 
horses went into those new stables, and a great number became 
glandered, affected with farcy or diseases: a great many of them 
