THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW contains an
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THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW contains an excellent article on the disease which peri officially excites so general panic. The fol- lowing is an extract:

 "Hydrophobia in man is of rare occur renee. During the last thirty years only six or eight cases have been known at Bartholo- news Hospital and among twenty persons who at one time were bitten, only one had the disease, so that the exceptions from the effects of this supposed virulent poison, here seems to form rule, whilst the observance of the usual laws of cause and effect, if the received theory of hydrophobia be true one, are very rare; is not more frequent than one in twenty! It is said that there are ten ani- mals besides the human species that are sus- ceptble of this disease. They are the dog, wolf, fox, and cat the horse, ass, mule, COW, sheep, and pig. The first four only, as it is pretended, have the power of communicating it. The mysterious and capricious agency with which among the human species hydro phoba has hitherto appeared to select its vic- tins, has been one fearful adjunct in the cata- logue of it's horrors It has set at defiance all the laws by which we reason, either from ex- perience or analogy. By some unknown spell it has seemed to seize upon its unhappy choice, and to have exerted its baneful influ- encc peculiarly over the powers of his mind. Bnt on a short examination the solution of the enigma presented itself As far as we know, it has never occurred to one to suppose, that the cause of this direful malady origin ates in the nature and shape of the wound, and not for any virulent matter injected into it. A wound made with pointed instrument, nail for instance, in the hand or foot, has not unfrequently been followed by tetanus ;- and the same consequences have succeeded wound where the nerve has been injured, without being divided. It deserves particular notice, that the only four animals that are said to have the power of communicating this maladv, have teeth of a similar form. They would make a deeply punctured wound, which more often than any other is the herald ofte- tanus,"