APPENDIX. — D. 337 



" What other canipe diseases may hy possibility he confounded, 

 with rahies 1 — The importance of the subject makes such an in- 

 quiry necessary ; but it must be prosecuted in a note below.* 



We now come to wliat are especially worthy of remark, as 

 being capable of being rendered in the highest degree useful, 

 for the decision whether any preventive means, and, if any, 

 what, are requisite, after the death of the animal whicli may 

 have inflicted a wound on any individual. 



"POST-MORTEM APPEARANCES. 



" The morbid anatomy of the rabid dog forms a most impor- 

 tant feature in a portrait of the malady, but is one that was 



* " Thousands of innocent dogs have been sacrificed to mistaking some other 

 disease for this ; and thousands of persons have been rendered miserable in their 

 minds by needless fears from the same errors. I know not the number of epi- 

 leptic dogs which have been killed under a supposition of their being rabid ; and, 

 on the other hand, not unfrequently, dogs really rabid have been fondled, and 

 had remedies administered to them at great personal risk, from a supposition that 

 they labored under some other complaint. Epileptic Jits, whether occasional, 

 or the consequence of distemper, are often mistaken for rabies : but it should be 

 remembered, that there is no rabid symptom whatever that at all resembles 

 such a fit, whether in the irritable or in the dumb variety. An epileptic fit is 

 sudden ; it completely bewilders the dog, and after a determinate period leaves 

 him perfectly sensible, and not at all irritable, but exactly as he was before : in 

 rabies there is no fit, i. e., no loss of recollection, no tumbling about wildly iu 

 convulsion ; neither is there any marked break in the natural irritability attend- 

 ant on rabies. If a dog in an epileptic fit should be so convulsed as to attempt 

 to bite, it is evidently done without design ; his attack is spasmodic, and pain 

 may make him seize anything, and it is quite as likely to be himself as any 

 thing beside. The irritability and mischievous attempts of the rabid dog have 

 always method with them, and they evidently result from a mental purpose to 

 do evil. The mad dog has usually a disposition to rove, the distempered one 

 never. A puppy in distemper, particularly if he have worms, may pick up 

 stones, or eat coals, or he may in a trifling degree take unusual matters as food ; 

 yet no dog but a rabid one will take in hay, or wood, or rag, or will distend his 

 stomach almost to bursting. The discharge from the nose and eyes which some- 

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