284 BABIES. 



ascertaining the precise number. All were bitten, so far as I 

 could discover, only about the head, and principally about the 

 nose and ears. The ears of some of them were torn into 

 shreds, and their noses and lips covered with tooth marks, 

 showing that the attack on them had been long persisted in. 

 This was evidently the work of an animal which was unable 

 to kill the sheep outright. 



On Christmas morning, a small dog, belonging to a 

 neighbor, was found attacking some sheep owned by the 

 Messrs. Freer, kept about three-quarters of a mile from the 

 preceding. He had wounded two of them in the same way, 

 'but more severely, when he was discovered and driven away. 

 He returned to the attack not long afterwards, was again 

 detected, followed home, and killed the same day. The idea 

 of his being rabid did not then occur to any one, though the 

 facts I have since learned lead to the impression that his 

 disease would have been apparent to a person familiar with 

 its symptoms. 



The wounds on H. P. Randall's sheep were found to heal 

 rapidly, and nothing was done for them. On the 12th of 

 January, 1863, he informed me that he had found one of the 

 bitten sheep on the ground unable to rise; that, on his 

 helping it up, it moved about with difficulty. It had frothy 

 saliva about its mouth. The next day it died. He had 

 observed some ewes riding each other about, prior to the 

 12th, but did not know whether the dead one was one of 

 these. 



On the 14th of January, he informed me that two or three 

 of the wounded sheep were riding and fighting each other ; 

 that one of them had suddenly butted him from behind ; that 

 on his turning and offering to kick it, it would not retreat. 

 He confined it in the barn. 



I saw the flock in the afternoon. It was in fine condition. 

 The wounds of the bitten sheep were mostly healed ; and, 

 with two exceptions, they looked as healthy and full as 

 any in the flock. Two of the sheep were obviously laboring 

 under an attack of rabies. I continued to visit these and the 

 succeeding cases daily, and generally twice a day, until the 

 29th of January, and until all the earlier cases observed by 

 me (seven) terminated in death.* I usually remained from 



* As each sheep was attacked it was immediately caught out of the flock. The 

 two first cases were put first in a barn and afterwards in a small pen together, shel- 

 tered on the north by a stack. The third one was put in a pen about twenty by forty 

 feet, partly sheltered on the north by a barn and on the west by an overhanging straw 

 stack, and the other four were placed also in this larger pen as fast as attacked. 



