"I can not do more than to indicate the more prominent and well-known certain symptoms, and those who wish for fuller information on the subject should consult the works of Youatt, and the more recent book of Dr. Fleming.

"Whilst too great care and caution cannot be used in dealing with a disease so dangerous, I wish to warn my readers against that unnecessary and hysterical alarm which dethrones the reason, and predisposes to the gravest results. If there be reason to suspect a dog of madness, if his natural disposition appears changed without a traceable cause, if he tears and bites at his bedding, pieces of wood, carpets, dirt, etc., if he be seen to paw at his mouth frequently, whilst no obstructive articles is in his throat, if at intervals he snaps and bites savagely at objects real and imaginary, if, after these paroxysms, he be seen to stagger and fall, if he show an insatiable thirst - if any or all of these symptoms be present, shut him up where he can do no harm, and call in to your aid a verterinary surgeon. By allowing Him to study the case, you will do a public good; for fortunately, cases of rabies are very rare, and it is only by the careful investigation of them by men specially educated to undertake the duty, that we can ever hope to discover a cure.

"Among the numerous superstitions that hang like clouds round canine madness, obscuring any possibility of a clear view of it, 1 will refer to one only, most of them being altogether unworthy of notice. It has long been a popular belief that a person bitten by a dog, even if the.animal be in perfect health at the time, is never safe from an attack of rabies so long as the dog lives; for it is held, that should the dog become mad at any future period, however distant, the person bitten will also fall a victim to the disease. Cases supposed to prove that rabies may be communicated by a dog free from it are constantly cropping up, and I know of a case of a woman who is said to have died from hydrophobia, caused by the bite of a dog that was clearly proved to be free from rabies at the time, and has remained so ever since. The woman, it appears, was in an upper room with her child, and the entrance of a small dog so alarmed her for her child's safety that she seized the intruder and threw it out of the window, and was bitten in the struggle; the woman was taken ill and died, showing all the symptoms of hydrophobia, and the surgeon who attended her certified that death was from that disease. 1 do not intend to dispute the opinion thus given, but I venture to say had the whole facts of the case been carefully investigated, say, by a jury of physicians of experience, it would have proved that the bite of that dog had but a small share in causing the woman's death. To me it appears as reasonable to believe that the dog could have bitten the woman without being in the same room with her, as that the bite could communicate rabies when the disease did not at that time exist. Such cases should not be passed by, but thoroughly sifted by qualiled men, that the truth might be elicited and the fears of the nervous allayed. The practical lesson to be learned from thi3 is, care and caution in dealing with dogs, especially strange ones, and to curb unnecessary alarm, which often brings about the evil it would avoid. When an accident does occur, have the wound promptly cauterized to its full depth with caustic, and let nervous, in addition, obtain medical advice.

"I recommend those having much to do with dogs to carry "in the pocket at all times one of those wooden cases of caustic which costs but sixpence, and with this safeguard about them, and the presence of mind and nerve to use it promptly and thoroughly - taking care the caustic reaches as deep as the tooth did - the bite even of a mad dog will do them no harm.

"Since the above was written, ten years ago, rabies in dogs has unfortunately been rather frequent, and a few years ago from the number of deaths from hydrophobia, caused by the bites from mad dogs, quite a panic arose, with the result that the attention of medical men and vet-erarians at home and abroad has been very much directed to its nature; as yet, however, no cure has been discovered, and I see no reason to alter what I have already said; but it will be useful very briefly to notice one or two points of special interest. Latest researches seem to point conclusively that the rabid poison exists in the saliva, and in none of the other secretions.

"Although its propagation by a bite or by the poisoned saliva coming in contact with an abraised or highly vascular surface are clearly enough the means of transmission and propagation, how it originates is unknown; exposure to great heat, feeding on salt meat, compelled abstinence from water, and many other causes, have been suggested as a producing cause, but proved not to be so. The old notion that it is peculiarly a disease of the dog days, is fabulous, nor is it connected with the functions of procreation, further than the present law in this country permits owners of bitches when in season to be fought over by excited males, furnishes excellent opportunities for its spread as well as being an insult to decency. It is the duty of men who keep dogs to have some knowledge of their nature, and the law should punish the ignorance or carelessness that causes an offense and a danger to the public.

"Unfortunately no cures are yet known; such things as the Birling and the Webb's cures, and other pretended family secrets may be swept aside. Medical men have tried every conceivable drug, and a few years ago it was thought that a specific had been found in curari, but it proved delusive. Hot and vapor baths have their votaries, just as half drowning in Crib, a pool in the Severn, was at one time believed in.

"Preventive measures are alone to be relied on, and the very old one of the Greeks, sucking the part, is excellent, and a small instrument has been invented which can be easily used; it is like an old-fashioned breast exhauster, with the bell-shaped head and long tube, but with a round bell half way up the tube as well, which of course receives all that the operator sucks out of the wound and renders him quite free from danger. It is made by a chemist in York, and can be bought through Maw, Son & Company, Aldergate street, London."