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is Strongly marked, 'thei-c is then seldom either much irrilal.ility 

 or delirium apparent; on the contrary, in many instances, a 

 most peac<'al)le disposition is manliest, and which does not ap- 

 ijcar dependant on the inability to bite, but really from a total 

 want of inclination to it. Indeed, in many cases of this kind, 

 the tractability of character and mildness of disposition have 

 appeared to be even increased by the disease, and that to a de- 

 gree that will not permit strangers to suppose it possible for 

 rabies to be present. It would sensibly aftect any one, to Avit- 

 ness the earnest, imploring look I have often seen from the 

 unhappy sufferers under this dreadful malady. The strongest 

 attachment has been manifested to those around during their 

 utmost sufferings ; and the parched tongue, as I have before 

 noticed, has been carried over the hands and feet of those who 

 noticed them, with iiiore than usual fondness. This disposition 

 has continued to the last moment of life, in many cases, without 

 one manifestation of any inclination to bite, or to do the smallest 

 harm. I have observed this particularly in pugs, and it has not 

 been uncommon also in other lap-dogs. 



" The progress of the disease in its latter stages is marked by 

 increased paralysis, and it often happens that, as it extends over 

 the body, that of the jaws lessens : the wretched animal now 

 reels about with little consciousness ; tumbles, and gets up 

 again ; now seats himself folded on his rump, and in this posture 

 life is stolen often away without a struggle. The fatal termina- 

 tion ranges between the third and seventh days ; few die sooner 

 than the third day, and very few survive longer than the seventh ; 

 the average number die on the fourth and fifth. In man, it has 

 destroyed at the end of twenty-four hours ; few have lasted be- 

 yond the third day : by repeated bleedings, however, a case 

 which is related in The Lancet of July 12th, was protracted to 

 the fourteenth day. Horses do not survive beyond the third or 

 fourth ; the ox and sheep, Mr. Youatt says, from five to seven 

 days ; but a rabid sheep, the property of Mr. Adam, of INIount 

 Nod, Streatham, died on the third; and I have a recollection 

 of one or two others which did not survive longer. 



