The veterinary surgeons are proving very satisfactorily in the Times
that a dog's bite is just as dangerous at one time of the year as at another, and may occasionally produce tetanus, like any other bad wound, whether the dog be "mad" or not. Mr. Loots gives an example of a bite which caused death from tetanus six weeks later, though the dog did not go mad, but fed as usual, and showed no further symptoms of excitement. Probably a haggled wound from a nail would have had just the same effects. Whence the inference that Sir R. Mayne is doing very right to have all the dogs muzzled—not only now, but throughout the year : a perfectly logical conclusion, at which Sir R. Mayne will probably exult greatly,—but what a prospect for our dogs ! Lest their bite shoukt have the same effect that a scratch with a pin
might have On a person in ill-health, they may be condemned to wretchedness all the year round ! A diseased cat bit two persons and a horse the other day in Paris. We would suggest to Sir Richard Mayne to issue a general order for the universal muzzling of metropolitan cats.
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