ON RABIES CANINA. 
By W. Youatt. 
[Continued from Yol. i, page 285-] 
ir has been proved that rabies is propagated by inoculation 
a one; and although every animal labouring under this disease is 
capable of communicating it, the bite of the rabid dog is, with 
very few exceptions, the cause. The malady generally appears 
in the dog between the third and seventh week from the period 
ot inoculation At the expiration of the third month, the animal 
is compaiatively safe. At the close of the seventh month there 
is y?o danger. Then if a species, of quarantine could be esta¬ 
blished, and every dog were confined separately for seven months, 
the disease would be annihilated. 
Dreadful, however, as are the ravages of this disease, and 
progressively and rapidly as its victims increase, it might be 
difficult to induce the sporting world to submit to this restric¬ 
tion. buch a quarantine possibly could not be enforced. Then 
ive must resort to other measures to lessen, if not to terminate, the 
c ® vas ^? tlonS T?^ ma Jady. Whence arises the evident increase 
ot rabies . From the increasing demoralization of the country, 
riom the lately adopted and cruel system of parochial govern¬ 
ment the peasantry of England is become degraded. The cot¬ 
tager is no longer enabled to support his family by honest labour- 
and the auxiliary pittance which the parish affords is doled out 
with so niggardly a hand, and accompanied by such circumstances 
of debasement, that he revolts at the acceptance of it. He tries 
other and fearful resources : he becomes a poacher—he is one of 
an organized gang of nightly depredators. To qualify himself 
01 this, he provides himself with his dog, ostensibly to defend 
is little all, but actually for the most nefarious purposes. Let 
the local authorities, who have lorded it somewhat too highly 
above their fellow-men, here promptly and justly interfere. Let 
all relief, in every shape, be denied where a dog is kept. 
In large towns, within these few years, the dog pits, those nur¬ 
series of crime, have been established. The mechanic, the groom, 
the coachman, the apprentice, mingle there with the ruffian and 
the avowed thief. I will not speak of the barbarous deeds which 
are there perpetrated; but I will refer to the thousand instances, 
which the peculiarity of my practice has brought under my 
notice, of the inevitable destruction of humanity, honour, and 
honesty, in all who are deluded to frequent these sinks of iniquity ; 
and without the slightest hesitation I will affirm, that rabies is 
