MISCELLANEA. 
Ill 
The poor fellow lay in this state during the whole of the 11th, 
the 12th, and until 5 o^clock on the 13th of February, when he 
died. During this period there was no sensible enlargement of 
any of the abscesses—no increased gangrene of the glans, nor of 
the external part of the foot—no perceptible alteration in any 
part of the exterior of the body, and no marked change in the 
desiccation of any of the pustules. 
On the 14th, at one o'clock p. m., an examination of the body 
took place. Its important results shall be related in our next 
journal, when we trust that we may be enabled to present our 
readers with an accurate delineation of some of the morbid 
lesions. Y. 
flli0cellanea* 
Obsolete Canine Pathology. 
Of the Diseases o/Dogs, and an account of several Receipts for 
the cure of their Madness, a)id of those bitten by them ; by 
Sir Theodore Mavern, and Sir Robert Gordon. 
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Dogs are subject to these several sorts of madness, or rather 
diseases: 
1. The hot madness, which is incurable ; they run at every 
thing, and then they can hold out but four days. 
2. The running madness, which is likewise incurable ; they fly 
only at dogs, and that by fits, and they may sometimes hold out 
nine months. 
3. La rage rime or dumb madness, which is a disease in the 
blood. 
4. The blasting or withering. This lies in the bowels, which 
are exceeding shrunk up. 
5. The sleepy disease, caused by little worms in the mouth of 
the stomach. These dogs die sleeping. 
6. The rheumatic disease. In this the head is very much swell- 
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ed, and the eyes become yellow. 
These five last are not properly madness, but some other dis¬ 
ease. When thus afiPected, they will eat nothing, nor at any 
time when sick. They live eight or nine days without hurting 
any body, and then die of hunger. The two first diseases are 
communicated by the breath of dogs, as the plague amongst 
men: the latter are likewise contagious, but curable. 
Receipts for the Bites of Mad Dogs. 
The first is composed of Virginia-snake root, and the flowers 
of St. John’s Wort, in equal parts ; and to be given before the 
ninth day after the bite. 
