REMEDY FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG. 5 / 5 
since the tax on dogs was established, the number of cases 
of hydrophobia have considerably increased at the Veterinary 
School of Lyons. He attributes the fact to the chaining 
up of the animals, and to the state of forced continence in 
which they are kept. “ The fact/’ he writes, (e of the im¬ 
munity of dogs in Constantinople has been contested. M. 
Bernis, Head Veterinary Surgeon of the army in Africa, 
asserts that hydrophobia is not very rare in our colony in 
Algeria. M. Magne, Professor at Alfort, knew a well authen¬ 
ticated case. These two distinguished veterinary surgeons 
do not, however, furnish any document which invalidates 
the general assertion of M. Hamont. M. Hamont, who has 
directed for fourteen years the Veterinary School at Cairo, 
admits the existence of cases of hydrophobia in Egypt, but 
asserts that they are never observed except in European 
dogs, who have afterwards inoculated indigenous animals. 
In support of this assertion, M. Lobligeois cites a fact sig¬ 
nalised in a letter addressed by M. Sacc, Professor at Wesser- 
ling, to the Society for the Protection of Animals. Hydro¬ 
phobia is not known on the Mussulman bank of the Danube, 
where the dogs wander freely about; but it is not very 
uncommon on the Hungarian side in dogs of the same race, 
who are chained up in farms, &c.” In consequence of these 
considerations, and of this asserted fact, that hydrophobia is 
excessively rare in female dogs, M. Lobligeois advises that 
owners of dogs should keep only bitches, or castrated males, 
or dogs of both sexes ; and that if they choose to keep males, 
they “ ought not to impose upon them continence, but leave 
them to indulge in their traditional cynisme , and not chain 
them up.” 
REMEDY EOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG. 
A Saxon forester, named Gastell, now of the venerable 
age of eighty-two, unwilling to take to the grave with him a 
secret of so much importance, has made public in the Leipsic 
Journal the means which he has used for fifty years, and 
wherewith he affirms he has rescued many human beings and 
cattle from the fearful death of hydrophobia. Take imme¬ 
diately warm vinegar or tepid water, wash the wound clean 
therewith, and then dry it; then pour upon the wound a 
few drops of hydrochloric acid, because mineral acids destroy 
the poison of the saliva, by which means the latter is neu¬ 
tralised. 
