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or of an attack of violent bronchitis, inflammation of lungs or 
bowels, or of scarlet or typhus fevers, I would certainly choose 
the dog. The remedy is severe and painful, but it is, at least, 
infallible. 
Hear now what Blaine, a canine veterinarian of the first 
order, says on the subject. On the dog Mr. Blaine is what Mr. 
Abernethy, or Sir Astley Cooper, are on the man, and his opi¬ 
nions are entitled to the like respect. 
“history op rabies. 
“ The popular term of madness among dogs has, of late years, 
given place to the more classical one of rabies ; but a slight view 
only of the subject is sufficient to shew, that this disease yet 
wants a name more strictly descriptive of its nature and charac 
ter than any of those in general use. The complaint itself is, 
unquestionably, of great antiquity; for we have authentic ac¬ 
counts of it for more than 2000 years. It is described both by 
Aristotle and Dioscorides. Other of the ancients likewise notice 
it,—history has continued to furnish us with numerous traces of 
it, particularly in Europe, where it seems sometimes to have 
raged with epidemic fury, and at others to have been but little 
known. In 1500, Spain was ravaged by it. In 1604 it was 
very common in Paris ; and 100 years after this, Germany be¬ 
came the theatre of this dreadful scourge among its wolves as 
well as dogs. Historians of every age have left short but fright¬ 
ful records of its dreadful visitations. Boerhaave may, per¬ 
haps, be considered the first who, by attentive observation, threw 
much light on canine madness. In England, little had appeared 
■worthy of notice before the account presented by Mr. Meynell. 
This celebrated sportsman published his memoir in the tenth 
volume of the Medical Commentaries ; and if his account pf ca¬ 
nine madness does not exactly coincide with future representa¬ 
tions, drawn from a wider field of observation, it nevertheless 
characterizes the disease with considerable precision; and, at 
