Hydrophobia

The average animal mprtality from hydrophobia iu England is oue tu ubout .'iDi i,i)()0 inhabitants, or nearly the samo as in New York city ; in Franco and Geruim ly it is somewhat higher ; ior the United States generally there are no satisfaetoiy statistics, but tho fatality is probably not greater than in New York. Tlie disease is peculiarly one of the températe zone, and is very rare in Turkey, Syrift, and Egypt, although it is said to oéctu in China and India. The potency of the contagión varíes in different epidemics, in different dogs, and at different times in the same dog. It is estimatod that írom oue-third to one-seventh of (lie dogs bitten by rabid animáis contract tl' e disease, when no treatmeut is 8 Jopted ; and the suseeptibility in man is even less, while a cure can always be expocted when the wound is well cauterized early. Hy rophobia occnrs oftenrst among ti i tí higlily-domestioatod dogs, anl is thonglit by muny of the first anthoritics to affect botlx sexos about equally, although the stuliatics of trance show tliat it oocurs (absohitely, not per 1,000) from three to flve times as ofteu in malo as in female dogs, and is readily recognzed, even in tho early stages, by those familiar with animáis. To most observant persons some departure from a healthy condition would be noti 1. Probably only a very small proportion of "mad dog" killed ever had iij drophobia or any other gerous clísense.-