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died. Many of the horses were sent to Hythe and placed in an 
open shed; not one of these horses became affected. It was 
certainly intended that animals with lungs should have an cle¬ 
ment to breathe once, and but once, and that the air should 
receive something from the blood, and impart something to the 
blood; but that, when made to go several times into the lungs, it 
produces a disease which becomes infectious, In the human sub¬ 
ject it produces fevers and the plague, and farcy and glanders in 
horses, the pip in fowls, and the husk in pigs. 
Have you seen, in the course of your practice, a horse affected, 
and which died of hydrophobia?—Yes, several. 
In those cases, were any of them without being bitten by rabid 
dogs?—None. 
Was there any disposition to bite in the case of horses?—The 
disease styled hydrophobia is a very improper term, for it ap¬ 
plies only to men: there is no dread of water in dogs, and there 
is one symptom which is characteristic of the seat of disease in 
the incipient state, that is, when the disease takes place in 
hounds, it is very common for the huntsmen to hear a dog chal¬ 
lenge, and not to know what dog it is, though he is as well ac¬ 
quainted with the voices of his dogs as we are with our own 
voice ; and on going up to the dog he finds that it was one whose 
voice he was well acquainted with, but totally different: this w ill 
continue for several days without any other symptom but an 
alteration of voice, a demonstration that the seat of disease in 
the early period is in the larynx, and which becomes manifest 
particularly in hounds. The disease in horses does not put on 
the same appearance as in dogs: in the dog, one of the most 
characteristic symptoms of the disease is that he retains a perfect 
knowledge of his master, and answers to his name, and will 
fondle his master, but bite his hand or a stick, or any thing w ithin 
iiis reach: the dog laps his own urine, eats his own feces, and 
eats brick and mortar, and these are characteristic symptoms of the 
disease. In horses the symptoms are quite distinct from those of 
the dog'; it produces a degree of irritability very similar to that 
which might be expected from a pistol being fired off close to 
the head of a young horse: he continues in that agitated state of 
fear from all surrounding objects, pawing with his feet, anxious, 
and in some cases disposed to bite, and to kick, and to be violent, 
but not alw ays bite or kick. 
In the case of a bite from a horse labouring under hydropho¬ 
bia, do you suppose that that would be contagious ?—I doubt 
whether it w ould; I have never known a case of it, and I believe 
there is no case of canine madness propagated by the bite of an 
animal, unless the teeth of that animal were intended as organs 
