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MINUTES OF EVIDENCE ON CANINE MADNESS. 
State your grounds for it ?—I have seen within the last 
four months more than I had seen in any eighteen previous 
months. 
Do you attribute that to the state of the climate ?—I am 
unable to answer the question, as my account of this would be 
merely conjectural. 
State what you think is the cause of that increase ?—The 
disease has arisen solely from the bite of other mad dogs; and 
more dog’s than usual of ferocious habits had become rabid. 
Have all those dogs which have been brought to you for cure 
been bitten?—Many dogs supposed to be rabid have been 
brought to me that were not so. 
Had those dogs any bite upon them?—To that I cannot 
speak. 
You can tell whether you perceived a bite upon them?— 
I have often examined dogs which had been rolled over, and 
apparently attacked, and could find no mark upon them, yet 
they became rabid. Dogs are covered with hair; it is almost 
impossible to find a small puncture. 
Does the wound generally heal before the disease appears?— 
That depends upon the nature of the wound, and the time of 
the appearance of the disease. 
In what state were those dogs, generally, when they were 
brought to you, as to temper and appetite?—I hardly know to 
what you refer. 
Were they moping and melancholy mad?—The great ma¬ 
jority were in a state which the sportsmen call dumb madness; 
harmless, and with the lower jaw hanging dow n. 
State what you consider the symptoms of rabies in the dog in 
its earlier stages?—There are two species of that disease, and 
the early symptoms of each are very different. 
State the symptoms with regard to the dumb madness?— 
The early symptoms are, disinclination to food, costiveness, a 
peculiarity of countenance, which sportsmen w ould recognise : 
I can only describe it as a mixture of suspicion and uneasiness. 
The dog will occasionally attempt to eat, but he is unable to 
chew his food; he drops it from his mouth; the lower jaw then 
begins to hang down, the tongue to be protruded and to become 
discoloured; the thirst of the animal increases, and, I may say, 
is almost unquenchable. 
Does lie drink?—He attempts to drink; he hangs over the 
water, lapping it most diligently, till the water becomes covered 1 
with the saliva, but does not diminish in quantity. 
You did not mention when the greatest quantity of saliva 
appears ?—There is a great deal of error with regard to that; 
