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cases the eyes are less vivid ; and, more particularly, when the 

 disease is to assume the mild form, called dumb madness, they 

 often present a dull aspect, and a purulent discharge from the 

 inner angles ; occasionally the nose also throws out pus. The 

 salivary discharge is often increased early in tRe complaint, 

 and so continues ; in other cases, a parched dry tongue is seen, 

 with insatiable thirst. The purulent discharge has occasioned 

 the disease to be mistaken for distemper. Much stress is laid 

 on a sullen manner, and a disposition to hide or retreat from 

 observation, as early characteristics of madness ; and these ap- 

 pearances are certainly not unusual in hounds and kennelled 

 dogs, but they are less frequently observed in the petted kinds ; 

 this, however, will greatly depend on the general character of 

 the dog at all times. Costiveness is not uncommon in the inci- 

 pient stage ; in the latter it is still more fi-equent. An early 

 sickness and vomiting often appear, but although ineffectual 

 retchings may continue, actual vomition does not often accom- 

 pany the complaint through its progress ; the peculiarity of the 

 inflammatifin in the stomach rather tends to retain the in*esta 

 within it. Indeed, this circumstance forms one of the stron .est 

 criteria of the existence of the disease, as vnll be hereafter no- 

 ticed. 



" A continual licking or violent scratching of some particular 

 part of the body, is by no means an uncommon symptom ; and 

 a close examination of the part will frequently detect a scar, or 

 the remains of the wound by which the poison was received ; 

 and when the former wound cannot be ascertained in this way, 

 if a true history of the case can be gained, it will always be 

 found that the inoculation was received on the part so scratched 

 or licked ; for I have reason to believe that this morbid sympa- 

 thy in the bitten part exists more or less in eveiy case. The 

 appetite is by no means always affected in either early or con- 

 tinued rabies ; on the contrary, food is not only eaten, but 

 digested also, during the first stages; and some will eat almost 

 to the last, but with such the food is seldom digested. That no 

 disinclination to liquid exists, will be readily acknowledged by 



