DISEASES OF DOGS : MADNESS. 367 



tion to bite, but appears rather dull and stupid, 

 and sometimes wonderfully so, and remains obe- 

 dient to his master's call to the last moment of his 

 life ; his eyes also look heavy, and his vision is 

 often impaired, which evinces itself by the dog 

 snapping at imaginary objects. 



When the disease draws to a fatal termination, 

 the system becomes exhausted by the previous 

 morbific excitement ; the dog's legs are unable to 

 support the body, and he dies oppressed with an 

 accumulation of evils. 



Madness has been said to destroy dogs always, 

 but that this is not always the case I am fully 

 satisfied from my own observation. A friend of 

 mine had a dog bitten by a mad dog, and he con- 

 sulted me about him, and I begged that he would 

 use no precautions against the disease, as I told 

 him I wished to watch particularly the progress of 

 the malady. He obligingly acceded to my re- 

 quest, and kept the dog confined. Symptoms of 

 madness began to be apparent in rather more than 

 a week, and as the disease advanced, the dog be- 

 came furious, and continued so for two days, and 

 then the disorder left the animal very much ex- 

 hausted. This dog began to recover on the seventh 



