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aberration of intellect, that temporary lunacy which such causes 
might produce, with that affection of one system of the nerves 
only, not necessarily connected with disturbance of the intellec¬ 
tual faculties, and in many, and the most affecting cases of hy¬ 
drophobia, not accompanied by that disturbance. 
He would not repeat what he had lately submitted to the 
public in another form; but he must confess that he should require 
far different and stronger cases, before he could be brought to 
believplthat rabies ever had a spontaneous origin. 
Mr. Dewhurst was still of opinion that rabies did sometimes 
occur spontaneously. The old lady’s dog had not been liberated 
for tw T o months. Huring what period of time the virus might 
lie dormant in the system he could not say. He believed that 
this w as a case of spontaneous rabies ; and he had often found 
the intestines highly inflamed, and extensively ulcerated, when 
examining the carcass of the rabid dog. He recollected a case 
examined by Mr. Brookes, in which the intestines were exten¬ 
sively ulcerated, and especially towards the caecum; and there 
was this painted appearance ot the mucous membrane of the in¬ 
testines. The stomach in this case was full of indigesta. It 
must, however, have been spontaneous in the first rabid dog. 
Mr. Field .—Many of the pests of the human and quadruped 
races were, doubtlessly, at first of spontaneous origin, although 
now clearly propagated by infection alone. 
The hour for closing the debate having now arrived, the meet¬ 
ing was adjourned. 
BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 
The Voice of Humanity for the Communication and Discussion of all 
Subjects relative to the Conduct of Man towards the inferior Animal Crea¬ 
tion, No. I. Price Is. 
Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and Brutes. By Lewis Gom- 
pcrtz, Esq. 
On the Glanders in the Human Subject. By John Elliotson, M. D. Cantab. 
F. R. S. &c. &c. 
A Practical Treatise on Glanders and Farcy in the Horse, descriptive 
and explanatory of its Origin, Progress, and Termination, and the most 
effectual Methods of Treatment and Cure. By Richard Vines, Veterinary 
Surgeon, Teacher of Anatomy and Physiology at the Royal Veterinary 
College. Price 12s. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
“ A Country Practitioner” must have known full well that his letter would 
not be inserted. When he complies with that which we require, and we think 
justly require, and which we always will require from our controversial corre¬ 
spondents, his communication shall appear; and, if he wishes it , and thinks 
• it will serve his cause , verbatim et literatim. 
Crito. We shall await a little while longer the probable termination of 
Mr. Bracy Clark's work before we continue our review. 
