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■deceitfully amiable, or growls at his master, shows 

 an unusual drowsiness and melancholy, constantly 

 looks for warm places, often slinks to his food, but 

 does not eat, drinks water greedily, but in small 

 quantities, and generally behaves in a restless, dis- 

 turbed manner. Unmistakable signs are also a 

 change in his voice, the bark becoming a hoarse 

 howl, loss of appetite, inability to swallow, flow of 

 saliva, a bleared look; he makes frequent trips out 

 side the house, licks and swallows strange objects, 

 and, as the disease advances, snaps and bites with- 

 out cause. In the later stages constipation sets in, 

 the ears droop, the tail hangs down, the eye has a 

 dull and squinting look. Then the eye becomes red 

 and inflamed. The Dog ceases to be susceptible to 

 caresses, pays no attention to his master's command, 

 becomes more and more restless and shy ; his look 

 is rigid or fiery, the head droops, the eyes and 

 cheeks swell, the tongue becomes very red and 

 hangs out of the mouth, from the sides of which 

 viscid saliva runs down. Soon the animal only 

 growls without barking, and ceases to recognize 

 any people, even his master. He pants for a drink, 

 but cannot swallow ; the water chokes him and the 

 muscles of the gullet contract convulsively. Then 

 a dread of water and all other fluids begins. He 

 ■ceases to lie down, but slinks around with drooping 

 ■tail and squinting eye. 



After this stage the :fer 



malady develops into a r ^~^_' 



quiet or a raging variety. L'^-tS ank. .,' -■ 



In the former the eyes Sill 

 are inflamed, but rigid -Xfil^MM^Pi 

 .and blear; the tongue jf | 

 becomes bluish and 

 hangs out. White foam 

 covers the corners of the 

 mouth, which is always 

 open; the lower jaw be- 

 comes paralyzed and 

 droops. With his tail be- 

 tween his legs and with 

 deep sunken head the 

 Dog runs for miles, stag- 

 gering and shivering, 

 biting everything that 

 crosses his path, espe- 

 cially other Dogs. If he 

 encounters an obstacle 

 in his way, which does 

 not allow of his pro- 

 ceeding in a straight di- 

 rection, he turns around 

 in a circle, falling and 

 -snapping. 



In the raging variety 

 the eye glistens, the pu- 

 pil enlarges, the mouth 

 is open but little, is cov- 

 ered with saliva and the 

 bLpish tongue hangs out. 

 Even in the first stages 

 of this form of rabies, the Dog shows a great deal 

 of obstinacy and deceit, even towards his master; 

 he involuntarily snaps after Flies or anything that 

 approaches him; attacks poultry and tears it to 

 pieces without eating; invites other Dogs to join 

 him and then makes ferocious rushes at them; shows 

 his teeth, distorts his face, whines, licks his lips with 

 liis inflamed tongue, watery saliva dropping from 

 his mouth the while. He turns away from water in 



a staggering manner, but still may swim across rivers 

 and pools. He bites everything he encounters, even 

 inanimate objects, and if chained up bites his chain. 

 The ancient Greeks knew hydrophobia, though it 

 is of much rarer occurrence in the southern coun- 

 tries than in somewhat colder latitudes. In the 

 arctic and torrid zones the malady occurs very 

 rarely, or not at all. 



Remedies for Per- Many remedies have been vaunted 

 sons Suffering as a cure for rabies, but they have 

 from Rabies. no (- proved efficacious; and it has 

 been generally found impossible to say whether the 

 animal which had bitten a person was really suffer- 

 ing from rabies or not. The only unfailing remedy 

 was the cauterization of the wound, but it had to be 

 done immediately and thoroughly. If this was neg- 

 lected, or if the poison had already penetrated into 

 the body, it depended on circumstances over which 

 Man had no control, whether disease, and with it 

 death, would result. Lately Pasteur has tried to 

 save even such cases. His procedure consists in 

 the inoculation of the disease as early as possible, in 

 the same manner as small-pox is prevented by vac- 

 cination. He dries the spinal marrow of rabid ani- 

 mals, rubs it in broth and injects this mixture into 

 the skin several times. By the drying process the 

 spinal marrow is weakened in the intensity of its 



SCOTCH GREYHOUND. This b 



i breed of Greyhound is by its much longer and thicker fur, better adapte 

 climates. The markings of black or brown and white, added to an intelligen 

 Dog both a beautiful and a faithful companion to Man. (Cams familiari 



poison and converted into a protective virus for in- 

 oculation. Thousands of people have been treated 

 in this way since 1885. Many of them have un- 

 doubtedly been bitten by Dogs that were mistakenly 

 suspected of being rabid; but there still remains a 

 great number of persons who have been bitten by 

 really mad Dogs. Of these some have died in spite 

 of, or perhaps in consequence of, the inoculation, 

 while the majority have been saved from death by it 



