RABIES VERSUS COMMON SENSE. 
497 
All the numberless symptoms ascribed to rabies in the ca- 
line are developed with equal certainty from a multitude of 
larmless maladies; from intestinal parasites , from which no 
[og is ever wholly free and which lead to the devouring of all 
orts of strange substances ! From foreign bodies in the prima 
nee, and no canine stomach is exempt from extraneous articles, 
uch as hay, straw, bits of leather, spools, coals, ashes, strings, 
narbles, etc., a fact generally overlooked by physicians and 
veterinarians, especially the latter, whose ablest researches and 
tndeavours are for the most part restricted to horses and cattle, 
or reasons obvious; from enteritis , gastritis , acute gastro-enteritis. 
Ileus, intestinal obstructions and perforation, rheumatism, perito¬ 
nitis, nephritis , cellulitis , cystitis , foreign bodies in throat, larynx , 
>ye, ear ; from “ toothache,” “ earache,” parasites of liver, 
ridney, heart and nasal passages; distemper, ague, bronchitis , 
meumonia , pleuro-pneumonia , laryngitis , chorea (St. Vitus dance) 
epilepsy, paralysis, seasickness; anaemia , uraemia (starving, feed- 
ng with substances devoid of salt), mange (a term that embraces 
lumberless diseases of the skin, though properly belonging to a 
lingle parasitical t form), pharyngitis, constrictions of pharynx, 
;onvulsions from whatever cause, abscess in throat, blood poison- 
n g (pyemia and septicaemia :), hydrocephalus, meningitis, encep- 
'lalitis , and in fact the whole class of nervous and mental diseases, 
o which canines are subject in even greater degree than man, and 
vhose existence, until recently, has been overlooked, not even 
suspected by most observers ! 
Post mortem appearances of themselves also, are especially 
vorthless; and congestion of mucous membranes, of kidney, 
)f spleen ; the cyanotic condition of various organs; and the 
lark, grumous tar-like condition of blood, etc., etc.; are alike fal- 
acious and unavailable as evidence, all being a common sequel 
o overheating or violent exercises in any form, to surfeit and 
)ther simple maladies. 
The proportion of dogs bitten by satisfactorily known rabie 
tnimals—much less human beings—is extremely small— less than 
nx per cent —affording a margin suggestive enough to calm all 
:ears not founded on absolute certainty. Nine different attempts 
