APPENDIX.—(D.) 
CANINE MADNESS. 
From my childhood upward 1 have been among dogs. My 
father kept a large kennel of Pointers and Setters; from the 
age of ten years I was among Foxhounds. I lived, up to my 
visiting the United States, in Yorkshire, perhaps the most sport¬ 
ing county in England; and since I have been a man, I never 
have been without one dog, and much oftener have owned half 
a dozen. 
During this space of time, certainly not less than five-and- 
thirty years of clear and comprehensive memory, I have never 
seen a mad dog, nor heard one authenticated instance of a dog 
being mad, though I have seen hundreds knocked on the head 
as mad, which were infinitely saner than their slayers. 
The consequence of this fact —for a fact it is—was, that for 
many years I was a disbeliever, if not in the possibility of canine 
madness at all, at least in the possibility of its communication 
to any animals but those of the canine race. And all the deaths 
attributed to hydrophobia—as the disease is most absurdly mis¬ 
named—I assigned to tetanus —lock jaw—to inflammatory dis¬ 
ease arising from punctured wounds, and a sympathetic state of 
body—to imagination, and to terror. 
Of these maladies, I am still well satisfied that four-fifths of 
the persons said to die hydrophobous, are the victims ; as well 
as of malpractice in cutting and burning the parts. 
Since studying Blaine’s Canine Pathology, I am satisfied that 
I carried my theory too far, and that the disease is communica- 
