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puted point. I am not in possession of a sufficient number of 
facts to determine that point. 
You are aware that in some climates dogs in much greater 
numbers than abound in London are constantly at liberty; that 
in those climates (the Committee refer to Lisbon, to Constantino¬ 
ple, and to Alexandria) the dogs roam, finding their own food, 
and without any disease arising' amongst them, produce in 
themselves or in others anything like hydrophobia]—I am aware 
of those facts. 
Do you conceive that any deg'ree of temperature is connected 
with the existence of this disease ] and if so, within what range 
of temperature do you suppose the disease to be possible ]—1 
am not aware of the extent of the country over which hydro¬ 
phobia is at present known ; but from the facts which have 
been stated by others, and from the circumstance of my never 
having met with a single case of spontaneous hydrophobia, I 
am induced to believe that it arises from inoculation, but I should 
not wish to speak positively upon that point. 
In that case, you would suppose that the non-existence of the 
disease, supposing the fact to be so at Lisbon, at Constantinople, 
and at Alexandria, arises merely from the fact that no such 
morbid poisons have been introduced by other persons]—Yes, 
exactly so. 
You mean by spontaneous disease, that in no case you have 
known a dog to exhibit it whom you could not prove to have 
been bitten ]—Or to have been exposed to the liability of being 
bitten by being left at large ; and that I had never known a dog 
completely excluded from other dogs, wdiichhad become subject 
to hydrophobia. 
The Committee are to understand that the preponderance of 
your own opinion is, that it is a disease to be communicated 
solely by the bite of another animal previously rabid ]—I am 
disposed to believe so. 
Has any remedy been suggested, within your knowledge, for 
the disease, or any prevention of its worst consequences when 
the disease has been communicated ]—Many unsuccessful at¬ 
tempts to find a remedy have been made after the disease has 
appeared, but I should consider that the only perfect prevention 
would be a quick excision of the part and its cauterization. 
What proportion of cases have been brought to Guy's hos¬ 
pital within the last few years in which you conceive the disease 
of hydrophobia to have taken place distinctly ] and of those 
cases, what has been the proportion of fatal termination as com¬ 
pared with the cases in which the bite was inflicted by the same 
doo\ and no fatal termination ensued ]—I have met with, I 
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