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which I can only answer by saying, that they are related in this 
connexion, as shew ing that it is doubtful whether, although the 
poison will not penetrate the common integuments, it may not 
be dangerous when received on the more delicate skin on the 
lips. 
In this case of the nobleman s son,is the dog dead?—He was 
sent to me the next day; and he died the second day afterwards, 
rabid. 
Are those instances recorded in any medical book of au¬ 
thority?—Yes, I believe by Dr. Mason (ioode. 
Is it your opinion that dogs are most likely to go mad in hot 
or cold weather, or under any extreme severity of w eather of any 
sort?—I believe, in the ferocious madness, the dog is more dis¬ 
posed to bite in hot w eather than cold: the fever runs higher, 
and he does greater mischief; but otherwise the disease is not 
more likely to occur. 
Have you ever rubbed the virus of the dog into another 
animal’s skin w here the skin is not punctured ?—I have rubbed 
a piece of cotton that I had sopped with the saliva of a rabid dog 
on the gums and lips of a healthy dog without producing the 
disease; but still, when the other cases are in my memory, 1 
w r ould say again, that I cannot answer the question you put to 
me before. 
Do you consider that the pow r er of communicating the infection 
arises in the dog immediately after the bite, or only in the earlier 
symptoms of the disease ?—That is another question very difficult 
to answer. There is a case on record of a dog communicating 
hydrophobia ten days before there appeared to be any thing the 
matter with him. He did at length become rabid, though ten 
days before he was in perfect health. Certainly, however, the 
dog could not communicate the infection until his own constitu¬ 
tion was affected, and that would not be immediately. 
Finding, as you did, in the stomach a great quantity of indi¬ 
gestible matter, are you of opinion that did not in any degree 
increase the disease of the dog?—The depraved appetite 1 should 
consider as a symptom or consequence of the disease. 
You said just now you tried the experiment of inoculation ; 
you inoculated some dogs with virus, and then waited the pro¬ 
gress of the disease?—Yes. 
Did they all take the disease ?—No : the experiment would 
fail as often as succeed. 
You could find no case rendering one dog more susceptible 
than another?—No; I have six dogs now under inoculation for 
the sake of experiment. 
