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CORRECTION OF REPORT. 
find you have the following sentence:—“ Mr. Langworthy .—In 
the dog is there irritation of the bitten part 1” I beg to say 
that I asked no such question: the discussion was* at that time* 
confined to whether rabies was or was not a spontaneous 
disease ; and, in consequence of a remark made by Mr. J. Field, 
that in the human subject he believed a general symptom was 
irritation about the part bitten, I asked Mr. Dewhurst, the 
author of the paper, whether the same symptom was always 
present in the dog, because, if not, I considered it a material 
point, and one upon which we had some right to infer (it being 
a general symptom in the human subject, which is always the 
effect of inoculation), that, where it did not exist in the dog, it 
may be a spontaneous case, and that, where it did exist, it was 
one of contagion: to w hich Mr. Dewhurst said he perfectly 
coincided. 
For the correctness of this statement, I beg to refer you to 
the members present, and to say, I should not have troubled 
you to insert this, but I thought it right to correct so palpable 
an error. 
Nov. 16th, 1830. 
We are obliged to Mr. Langworthy for his addition of the 
word always to the question, which, although he denies it, he 
really, and by his own shewing, did ask . As to the reason of 
the question, we regret that we should have omitted that 
which Mr. Langworthy deems so material. Our report con¬ 
tains but the substance of the discussion. Did we give a two 
hours’ debate verbatim, it would occupy the whole of our 
Periodical. They alone who attempt to give a faithful sum¬ 
mary of a desultory debate, know how difficult is the task. 
We have endeavoured to give this summary to the best of our 
ability; and have the satisfaction of being able to say, that 
the charge of palpable error , or doing injustice to the speakers , 
has rarely been made.— Edit. 
