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may be returned through the nose. In some cases a stiffness or 

 impaired control of the limbs has suggested inflammation of the 

 feet. In the uncastrated male and female generative excitement 

 is the rule, the protrusion and erection of the penis, the swelling 

 and rigidity of the clitoris, with frequent straining to pass water, 

 the whiuneying of the animal for its mate ; attempts at copulation 

 and even ejection of semen may be observed. The seat of the 

 bite may be red, angry and itchy, so that the horse rubs, nibbles 

 or gnaws it, often breaking it open anew. There is usually 

 ardent thirst, and no dread of water, even when swallowing is 

 difficult or impossible. 



During a violent paroxysm the horse often bites the halter, 

 blanket, manger, rack or stall, seizes the adjoining horse with 

 his teeth, or gnaws, or tears strips of skin from his own shoulder, 

 breast or limbs. In the same way he uses his feet with the most 

 evident purpose of injuring man or beast that may approach him, 

 or he breaks down his stall. 



Even at an early stage there may be spasmodic movements of 

 the eyes, face or body, and later there appear signs of paresis, 

 often commencing in a hind limb and extending to paraplegia and 

 general paralysis. Sometimes paralysis begins in the muscles 

 adjoining the seat of the bite. The temperature, at first normal, 

 may rise to 104 F. in the advanced stages, breathing and pulse 

 are greatly accelerated, and the skin may be bathed in perspira- 

 tion. Spasms are not entirely superseded by paralysis, and death 

 often takes place during a convulsion, from the fourth to the 

 sixth day. In apoplexy death may ensue in one day. 



Cases in which paralysis is not preceded by a furious stage are 

 not uncommon in horses. 



Symptoms in Cattle. Cattle are frequent victims of rabies, 

 which assumes mostly the furious type, yet in certain outbreaks 

 the paralytic or lethargic form predominates. There is first a 

 strange irritability and restlessness, very unlike the habitual 

 quiet disposition of the animal. The head is raised, the ears 

 alert, the eyes prominent, red, fixed, with occasionally widely 

 dilated pupils and brilliant flashes from the tapetum lucidum. 

 Sometimes they roll or squint. They may appear wild and fero- 

 cious or dull and hopeless. L,oud and terrified bellowing is not 

 uncommon, switching of the tail, drivelling of saliva, and ex- 



