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MINUTES OF EVIDENCE ON CANINE MADNESS. 
How soon after inoculation did the disease appear?—There is 
a great uncertainty with regard to that. 
How was it in those cases you tried?—I should say in not less 
than three weeks; and varying in the cases which proceeded 
from artificial inoculation from that to three months. 
Which kind of the two, the dumb or the ferocious madness, 
was the commonest in those cases of inoculation?—It seemed 
to be a point of indifference. 
Was there any difference in the time of the appearance of the 
two kinds; suppose you inoculated a dog, would the disease 
appear quicker in the ferocious madness than in the dumb? — 
I am not aware that it would. 
Did they ever recover after the disease appeared?—No. 
By no means whatever?—No. 
Not of either ?—No. 
Those dogs that have been brought to you as rabid within 
the last four months what sort of dogs have they generally 
been, belonging to people of the better class, or belonging to 
the poorer class?—Both; a greater proportion, perhaps, than 
usual, of the higher class than those in a lower situation of life. 
Have you seen or know n of many cases of madness in dogs 
that are suffered to run loose about the streets without owners, 
and generally those which live upon the town?—Those are not 
the sort of dogs usually brought to me. 
Have you knowrn many instances of those dogs going mad ?— 
Yes. 
Have you many dogs that have undergone the operation of 
worming?—Yes, I have wormed a great many. 
Do you consider it has any beneficial effect?—Not the least in 
the world. 
Do you consider the symptoms of madness so decided that 
you can never be mistaken, so as to take a dog that is not mad 
for a dog which is mad ?—*No; I am bound to acknow ledge that 
I have often been mistaken in the early stage of the disease. 
Of those dogs which have been brought to you within the last 
four months, are you decidedly of opinion the greater majority 
have been mad?—I think I can safely speak to at least eighty 
cases of decided madness. 
Within what period ?—Since the end of January. 
Have any of those dogs so brought to you bitten persons 
previously ?—Yes, many of them. 
State about the number that have been bitten to your know¬ 
ledge?—More than thirty or forty. 
Of those thirty or forty, did any of them undergo operations to 
