On no account allow one dog to see another in a fit. The suffering dog should have his head wet and should be kept for a time in a dark, quiet place, free from all excitement. In most cases of convulsions a small dose of bromide of potassium will do great good. Hydrophobia, considered as a canine disease ,is decidely a misnomer. The proper term for canine madness is rabies. The rabid dog has "no fear of water." On the contrary, he craves it, and, unless paralyzed, he has no difficulty In swallowing it. ■ Rabies is a specific disease of the nervous system. In all cases there is an intense inflammation of the brain and spinal marrow, ending in a loss of function, which is a result common to inflamed glands. The mucous glands of the stomach and bowels, the liver, the pancreas and the kidneys are all more or less injected with blood; but the salivary glands are especially affected, and the secretion of saliva is greatly increased. There is the furious or maniacal form of rabies and the paralytic. The paralytic is known as dumb rabies. Absolutely typical cases of either form are as rare as is the disease. Death, however, usually results in from two to ten days in the furious form, while in dumb rabies the period is much shorter.

The howl or bark of a mad dog is very remarkable. It is totally unlike his ordinary voice, and is sonorous and melancholy to an extreme. No one need mistake it. The dog's appetite is so perverted that he will swallow stones, sticks, straws and almost any filth. His biting and snapping are reflex actions; that should not be regarded as deliberate. It is then that he is really dangerous. Irritability is an advance stage of rabies. In the earlier stages the animal is sullen and inclined to hide away in corners. His eyes grow wild and suspicious. If at large he will roam over wide tracts of country at a jog trot, with his head down and his tongue out. In dumb rabies there is an entire absence of excitement. The muscles of mastication are paralyzed so that the lower jaw is dropped! there is no maniacal stage at all.

Epileptical convulsions are due to an irregular discharge of the nerve cells. They occur unexpectedly, are of variable duration, and the spasms are of two kinds. A prolonged muscular contraction is called a tonic spasm. Following the tonic spasm are the clonic spasm, which consist of alternate contraction and relaxation. The dog, like the human subject, will froth at the mouth and bite the tongue. Epilepsy may be hereditary, or may be due to teething and worms.

Apoplexy differs greatly from epilepsy. The convulsions are not prominent; the pupils of the eyes are either contracted or dilated; there is long-continued unconsciousness and more or less paralysis.

Meningitis, so often mistaken for rabies, is yet very different. The temperature is very much elevated, which it is not in rabies; the dog snaps, but shows no tendency to bite, and there is no particular bark and howl combined, although the dog's voice is high-pitched.

Phrentitis is simply inflammation of the brain. It is sometimes a complication of distempers, and is the only disorder which resembles rabies. It generally occurs in the hottest weather. The dog can not propagate phrentitis by salivary inocculation.

"Hydrophobia in human beings," says a writer, "results from accidents of a nervous order, sometimes mortal, sometimes curable, according as they derive from disorders analogous to tentanus (lockjaw) produced by a wound or from purely mental disorders." According to Dr. Caft'e, "Spontaneous rabiform hydrophobia is the only rabies that exists, and that is a mortal rabies." Before M. Pasteur's system was invented about nineteen persons annually were officially reported to have died of hydrophobia. Now, strange as it may seem, the number of persons who annually report themselves bitten by rabid dogs averages from 1,500 to 2,000. Rabies is a rare disease, rarer today than in the past, and hydrophobia is more or less a form of hysteria. Were there less talk about it, it would be better for the community. A little more knowledge of our own nervous system, a little less ignorance of the dog's, and we shall be far more likely to escape kydrophob a entirely than to die from it or to be saved by inoculation.

I will now give a most important and valuable interview with the famous medical expert, Prof. Edward C. Spitzka. of New York. Prof. Spitzka declares the Pasteur rabies theory and treatment a humbug from start to finish, and rabies to be a hoax. Ex-United States Surgeon General Dr. Wm. A. Hammond indorses his decision. Such arguments as Prof. Spitzka's, a most eminent authority, should convince every one who reads it that he is correct:

"Although Pasteur was undoubtedly as sincere in his work as his follower, Paul Gibier, doubtless is in dispensing the ridiculous treatment," said Prof. Spitzka, "I am willing to stake my reputation that there is no such disease as 'hydrophobia,' or 'rabies,' in existence, and I am further impressed that the Pasteur inoculations are injurious. This is not merely my opinion. I have a practical explanation for every statement I make, and have carefully weighed every possible opposition to my conclusions for a parallel consideration.

"I am accordingly prepared to answer any criticism. Of course, the strongest retaliation I shall receive will be the broad charge that I am following in the footsteps of the narrow-minded opposers of. the Wonderful Jenner smallpox vaccination discovery, on which the Pasteur treatment hinges its practicability. As to this most eminent charge there is no connection between the two treatments. For while every one acknowledges the existence of the dreadful smallpox, the existence of hydrophobia, or rabies, has never been satisfactorily demonstrated. I have not myself - nor has any other expert investigator - been able to distinctly diagnose a single case of the so-called malady, to my knowledge. I have often witnessed the symptoms, commonly termed 'rabies,' but in every instance these exciting observations have been plainly nothing more than tetanus symptoms of acute fevers and the many forms of deadly blood poisoning.