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MINUTES OF EVIDENCE ON CANINE MADNESS. 
one or the other. There are spots of extravasated blood. If 1 had 
found these indigestible substances, and much inflammation, 
1 should at once decide that the dog was rabid: pieces of wood, 
coals, stones, See. would lead me to suspect distemper, or teething. 
\ ou mentioned another species of madness besides the dumb ; 
describe the symptoms of that?—The furious madness. The 
very early symptoms would be nearly the same. Dulness, dis¬ 
inclination to eat, costiveness, but accompanied with crossness, 
gradually increasing. I would take as the first indication of 
this crossness, the dog seizing the hand of his owner, or the foot, 
and mumbling' it, and not biting it; an inclination to bite, which 
his affection for his owner represses : I take that as the beginning 
of it. The eye then becomes bright; there is a glare which is 
seen in no other disease, and in a large dog it is terrifying. He 
labours under some delirium, watching imaginary objects, snap¬ 
ping at them, flying at them. He is impatient of control, made 
fierce at the sight of a stick, or the attempt to strike him. The 
howl is heard at an earlier stage, and is still more decisive of 
the disease. If he escapes, or is loose, he will attack every dog 
he can get at, and frequently other quadrupeds, but not often, 
except provoked, the human being. But I would say, the de¬ 
gree of ferocity depended on the breed of the dog, and his pre¬ 
vious habits. The domestic spaniel and greyhound would, 
except under circumstances of provocation, rarely or never bite 
their owner. 
State what are the dogs most likely to bite?—Those that are 
either naturally ferocious, or have acquired ferocity, particularly 
those which have been trained to fight. 
Do you mean a bull terrier ?—The bull terrier is even worse 
than the bull-dog; the bull-dog is seldom disposed to bite a 
human being; the terrier will bite every thing'. 
Now' state the symptoms of ferocious madness previous to the 
dog’s death.—In ferocious madness the dog is able to eat and 
drink, and occasionally will both eat and drink in every stage of 
the disease. 
You say occasionally?—In the earlier stages of the disease, 
in by far the majority of cases, the dog will eat. In ferocious 
madness he is always able to drink, and he drinks a great deal; 
but it is not the apparent thirst of the dog under dumb madness, 
because he is able to gratify his thirst; the other poor fellow 
cannot. 
When the inclination to drink returns, there are other decided 
symptoms of madness ?—There is alw ays an inclination to drink, 
and he never loses the power to drink. 
