S68 DISEASES OF DOGS : MADNESS. 



day, and was completely well in a fortnight from 

 the commencement of the disease. 



When madness proves fatal, death no doubt 

 proceeds from the powers of the system being 

 broken from the peculiar morbific excitement in' 

 duced by the poison. 



The morbid appearances, on examination after 

 death, vary in different dogs, as do the symptoms, 

 while living. At the back part of the mouth 

 there is a muscular pouch, denominated pharynx; 

 this is always more or less inflamed in madness, 

 and sometimes so inflamed as to appear as red as 

 scarlet ; the inflammation often extends some way 

 down the gullet ; the superior part of the windpipe 

 is also usually inflamed : inflamed spots are observed 

 in the stomach, and there is generally also a heap 

 of undigested trash found in the stomach. The 

 bowels are variously inflamed from one end to the 

 other. The membranes, which surround the brain, 

 or the brain itself, are always observed to be in- 

 flamed. 



We shall offer a ^tvf remarks concerning the 

 nature of madness in dogs. The various and 

 complicated actions of the body constituting life, 

 are subject to fixed and determinate laws ; these 



