HYDROPHOBIA AND MUZZLING.
[TO THE EDITOR OR TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letter of " F.R.S." on dog-muzzling, to which you allude, embraces the whole question, and ought to establish the futility of the muzzle. There is only one point to which. it may be useful to call attention. Hydrophobia has come to be regarded in the popular mind as a disease having one origin only. Now, it is admitted by most and not denied by any of the medical profession, that symptoms closely akin to, if not absolutely identical with, "hydrophobia," are developed in cases of blood-poisoning arising from injuries other than the bite of a dog. It is therefore a question open to doubt if all the "reported cases" (" 2-57 and 3.20 per million of the living population") are really. due to the bite of a dog at all .—
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