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Have you ever used alkalies?—Yes; but 1 have never known any thing’ 
effectual after the mental symptoms have come on. 
Mi\ C. LusMngton. —When once hydrophobia has made its appearance 
in a decided stage, are you aware of any recovery from it ?—I am not 
aware of any case; I never met with any such case in any legitimate or au¬ 
thentic shape. 
William Sewell, Esq. called in; and examined. 
Mr. C. LusMngton. —I believe you are Assistant-professor in the Royal 
Veterinary College?—Yes. 
How long have you been so ?—Nearly forty years. 
You have no doubt acquired considerable knowledge of the diseases of 
animals ?—I have constantly attended to them. 
Has your attention been drawn to the increased number of dogs in the 
metropolis and the suburbs of late years?—Yes. 
What do you ascribe that increase to ?—To the employment of dogs in 
carts, which used not to be the case. 
Are you aware that establishments of dogs exist, where they are kept to 
the number of thirty or forty, for the purpose of being let out in the course 
of the day to draw carts ?—I was not aware of that. 
You have no doubt heard that dogs so used are exposed to very cruel 
treatment ?—I have very often seen it. 
Do you suppose that a frequent consequence of such ill treatment is hydro¬ 
phobia ?—I am certain it is: abuse, over-exertion, bad diet, heat of weather, 
and all those causes which would induce it in many other animals, will cause 
hydrophobia in dogs. When bullocks are over-driven, they become rabid: 
we do not consider it is hydrophobia, because they have no dread of water; 
on the contrary, they will drink very freely; it is rabies. I have never seen 
a case of hydrophobia amongst such animals, as they will drink very freely: 
it is rabies or canine madness in all. 
The bite of dogs will lead to hydrophobia?—^Yes, I have known this in the 
human species, or persons bitten by dogs not known to be ill, but which 
afterwards became rabid. 
Has it come to your knowledge that valuable sheep and cattle have been 
destroyed in consequence of having been bitten by rabid dogs, the disease of 
hydrophobia having been communicated to them ?—Yes, the disease of 
canine madness, not hydrophobia. 
What is the distinction between canine madness and hydrophobia ?—It is 
considered hydrophobia when they have a dread of water : canine madness 
is where there is a poison communicated to the animal by a dog or fox, or 
any of the feline species. 
Are the consequences the same ?—Yes, precisely. 
Have you ever known cases of that character ending in recovery?—Not 
a single one. 
Then a great deal of valuable property must be destroyed ?—A great deal 
annually, horses as well as sheep and cattle. 
Mr. Hume. —It is incontestible that dogs communicate the disease; do 
horses, sheep, and cattle propagate it?—Ido not believe they can. I have 
tried the experiment by inoculation with their saliva upon rabbits, but have 
never been able to communicate it; and so with the human species. I ino¬ 
culated rabbits and an ass from a poor woman on the day she died of the dis¬ 
ease. 
Have you ever inoculated any animal from a dog under the paroxysm of 
the disease ?—Yes, several. 
