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and will force or gnaw his way out of his confinement in a most 

 surjirising manner. The vessels that are placed before him, he 

 overturns or breaks with mischievous alertness. 



"A iVisposiiion to rove accompanies each variety of rabies ; hut 

 as, in the dumb kinds, the paralysis, stupor, and prostration of 

 strength, are hindrances to it, so it is more particularly apparent 

 in the acute kind. This inclination does not usually shew itself 

 by an attempt to escape altogether, neither does it appear a de- 

 lirious affection; on the contrary, much method is displayed in 

 it, which makes it rather seem an instinctive disposition com- 

 mon to all, to ■propagate the disease. In its early stages, before 

 the strength is much impaired, dogs will travel immense dis- 

 tances under this impulse : such a one trots along, and industri- 

 ously looks out for every other dog within his reach or sight. 

 Whenever he discovers one, little or large, he first smells to 

 him, in the usual way of dogs, and then immediately falls on 

 him, generally giving him one shake only ; after which he com- 

 monly sets off again in search of another object. The quick- 

 ness with which this attack is made very frequently surprises 

 the bitten dog so much, as to prevent his immediately resenting 

 it : but nothing is more erroneous than the supposition that a 

 healthy dog instinctively knows a rabid or mad one. I have 

 watched these attacks in numerous cases, and I have seen the 

 mad (.log tumbled over and over, without the least hesitation, by 

 others that he had himself fallen on. 



" During this march of mischief, ral>id dogs but seldom, how- 

 ever, turn out of the way to bite human passengers ; neither do 

 they so otl:en attack horss\s, or other animals, as their own spe- 

 cies. Sometimes they will not go out of their line of travel to 

 attack these even ; but, trotting leisurely along, will bite only 

 those which fall immediately in their way. In other cases, 

 however, wliere the natural habit is irritable and ferocious, and 

 where dogs may have been used to worry other animals, as 

 guard-dogs, farmers' dogs, terriers, &c., a disposition to general 

 attack is sometimes apparent ; and by such horses, cows, sheep, 

 pigs, and even human persons are all indiscriminately bitten. 



