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fidgetiness, continual shifting of the posture, a steadfast gaze ex- 

 pressive of suspicion, an earnest licking of some part on which a 

 scar may generally be found. If the ear be the affected part, the 

 animal is incessantly and violently scratching it. If it be the foot 

 he gnaws it till the integuments are destroyed. 



" Occasional vomiting and a deepened appetite are very early 

 noticeable. The dog will pick up and swallow most anything that 

 comes in his way, even his own excrement. Then the animal be- 

 comes irascible ; flies fiercely at strangers ; is impatient of correc- 

 tion ; seizes the whip or stick ; quarrels with his own companions ; 

 demolishes his bed ; and if chained up, makes violent efforts to 

 escape, tearing his kennel to pieces with his teeth. If he be at 

 large, he usually attacks only those dogs that come in his way ; 

 but if he be naturally ferocious, he will diligently and persever- 

 ingly seek his enemy." 



According to Mr. Youatt, the disease is principally propagated 

 by the fighting dogs in towns ; and by the curs in the country ; by 

 those dogs, therefore, which minister to the vices of the lower classes 

 in town and country respectively. He maintains that if a well 

 enforced quarantine could be established, and every dog in the 

 kingdom confined separately for seven months, the disease might 

 be extirpated in Great Britain. This opinion is founded of course 

 on the belief that rabies never originates, any more than small- 

 pox does, sponiafieousfy, but is always propagated by the specific 

 virus. As corroborative of this, authors have cited the statements 

 that rabies and hydrophobia are unknown in some countries. The 

 most common statements so urged are that South America is, or 

 was a stranger to this disease. That it was imported into Jamaica 

 after that island had enjoyed an immunity from the disease for at 

 least fifty years previously ; that the most wretched curs abound in 

 the island of Madeira, that are afflicted with almost everj- disease, 

 tormented by flies, and heat, and thirst, and famine, yet no rabid 

 dogs had ever been seen there ; and that, on the contrary, the loss 

 of human life from hydrophobia in Prussia, between the years 

 1826 and '36, reached the number of 1666. With regard to the 

 geographical limits of this disease, I shall have occasion to speak 

 further on. 



Very early in the disease, the expression of the animal's coun- 



