400 HYDROPHOBIA. 



that dreamy, contemplative, delirious wandering commonly 

 referred to the disease when occurring to mankind, and which 

 usually seems to characterise it when occurring to dogs. To 

 expound the characteristics of this hydrophobic delirium I can- 

 not do better than cite from Dr. Bardsley : 



6 1 observed,' says this gentleman, speaking of one of his 

 patients, ' that he frequently fixed his eyes with horror and 

 affright on some ideal object, and then, with a sudden and 

 violent emotion, buried his head beneath the bedclothes. The 

 next time I saw him repeat this action I was induced to in- 

 quire into the cause of his terror. He asked whether I had 

 not heard howlings and scratchings. 



' On being answered in the negative, he suddenly threw 

 himself on his knees, extending his arms in a defensive pos- 

 ture, and forcibly threw back his head and body. The mus- 

 cles of the face were agitated by various spasmodic contrac- 

 tions; his eyeballs glazed, and seemed ready to start from 

 their sockets ; and at that moment, when crying out in an 

 agonising tone, "Do you not see that black dog?" his coun- 

 tenance and attitude exhibited the most dreadful picture of 

 complicated horror, distress, and rage that words can describe 

 or imagination paint.' 



The late lamented veterinary surgeon Mr. Youatt, in his 

 wonderfully graphic accounts of hydrophobia in animals, more 

 especially the dog, pays great heed to this wandering, this 

 dreamy contemplation of imaginary objects by hydrophobic 

 dogs. According to his high authority, there is no such cer- 

 tain sign of the presence of the disease as this. He never 

 knew it fail; he could rely upon it implicitly. Endeavouring 

 to sketch the progress of canine rabies from the beginning, 

 I will, or rather Mr. Youatt shall, commence by giving an 

 exposition of symptoms whilst the disease is yet incipient. 



c The early symptoms of rabies in the dog,' says he, c are 

 occasionally very obscure. In the greater number of cases 

 we find sullenness, fidgettiness, and continual shifting of pos- 



