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toward man or dog or phantoms of their imagination and attacking 

 with bill or spurs or both. This, however, rapidly advances to 

 paralysis and death. In cases due to intracranial inoculation on 

 the other hand, somnolence, lethargy, or coma appeared early, and 

 was quickly followed by paralysis. This affects especially the 

 legs and neck. Recoveries are common and the animal is there- 

 after immune. Subsidence, with complete intermission of symp- 

 toms, is more common than in rabbits, the disease reappearing 

 later, and perhaps finally ending in recovery. 



Symptoms in Wild Carnivota. The rabid wolf, fox, jackal, 

 hyena, coyote, ferret, polecat and skunk lose their fear of man, 

 and approach and attack him either in field, village or city. The 

 disease has its furious and paralytic stages as in the dog, and the 

 animals attack according to their nature, wolves being dangerous 

 from flying at the face and throat, and skunks from stealing up 

 and biting without warning. 



Symptoms in Man. After the period of incubation prodromata 

 may be present, or there may be suddenly and without any pre- 

 monition, violent spasms of the pharynx and inability to swallow. 

 The premonitory symptoms when present consist in irritability of 

 the cicatrix which becomes red or blue, swollen, itchy or pricking, 

 and an aura or shooting pain may extend from this toward the 

 heart. There is anxiety, sighing, tremor, restlessness impelling 

 to frequent change of place, insomnia, disagreeable or painful 

 dreams, weariness, and gloomy forebodings. The face is pale 

 and drawn, and the eyes wander or have a look of apprehension. 

 There is some fever and often marked thirst, and the attempt to 

 swallow rouses slight spasm or a sensation of tightness in the 

 throat. The fauces, pharynx and eyes are congested, reddened 

 and it may be swollen. Pulse and respiration are both quickened, 

 the inspiration being often prolonged and sighing, and the expira- 

 tion sobbing. At first the intellect is unimpaired ; there is no 

 illusion nor hallucination. 



In cases in which premonitory symptoms are lacking, violent 

 spasms of the throat and chest are commonly roused by an attempt 

 to drink and this is so painful that the patient cannot again be 

 induced to try. After this any suggestion of drinking, the offer 

 of drink, the noise of trickling water, the sight of water, the sight 

 of a vessel in which the water was contained, or even of a clear 



