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of the nineteenth century the disease spread over the whole 

 of Europe, and at about this time made its appearance in 

 America, the first outbreak being reported near Boston in 1768. 

 In 1779 rabies was seen in Philadelphia and the State of 

 Maryland, and in the year 1785 it was prevalent in many of 

 the Northeastern States. At the present time, only a few of 

 our extreme Western States along the Pacific coast can boast 

 of the freedom of rabies, V)ut from the rate of the present 

 spread of the disease, it will be but a short time before rabies 

 will have made its appearance in all the States. The disease 

 is most prevalent in France, Belgium and Russia. Australia ' 

 alone, of the recognized large countries, is free from rabies, 

 due to the rigid quarantine regulations enforced upon all dogs 

 imported. Paigland, in the early eighties, practically suc- 

 ceeded in wiping out the disease by the enforcement of a law 

 requiring the muzzling of all dogs and with strict quarantine 

 regulations on imported dogs. At the present time, rabies is 

 becoming more prevalent in that country, since the quarantine 

 regulations are not enforced as they were. 



Animals Susceptible. All the warm blooded animals are 

 susceptible to rabies. Birds may contract the disease, and it 

 has been observed in some experimentally inoculated and 

 infected, that recovery may occur after showing symptoms of 

 the disease. It is, however, generalh' accepted, that all other 

 animals, when once they show symptoms of rabies, will die 

 within a short period. The contrary has never been proven. 

 In the dog, after the first distinct symptom is observed, death 

 may follow shortl}- afterward, or it may require as long as ten 

 days to take place. 



Of the carnivora and omnivora, the dog stands out far 

 from the rest as the most frequent host or propagator of the 

 disease from animal to animal, or from animal to man. The 

 wolf should come next in this classification, but of the dom- 

 estic carnivora and omnivora the cat must here be mentioned, 

 with the pig and the horse,- in the order najned. Of the wild 



