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sought for l)y one pertfon as well as another, by the most unin- 

 formed, and l)y the amateur as well as the professional man. 

 It is also moie important, because it may be found lonn- after 

 death, when the other marks have beeome blended in the uni- 

 versal decomposition and decay of the body. I cannot exem- 

 plify this better, than by relating a circumstance of my being 

 sent for, to a considerable distance in the country, to examine a 

 suspected dog, that had been already buried three weeks, but 

 was now dug up for my inspection. All other marks to be 

 gained from tlie morbid anatomy had, of course, disappe red ; 

 and I must have been h'ft in doubt, (Ibr the dog had come from 

 some distant ])art, had bitten a child who was caressing him, 

 and had been in conseipience killed on the spot — nothing, there- 

 fore, of his history was known,) had it not been ff)r this unfailino: 

 criterion, which I found to exist, in this instance, in its full 

 force, and from which T was led, without fear of error, to decide 

 that the dog had been rabid, and, consequently, without exci- 

 sion of the bitten parts the child's life was in danger. 



" When the stomach is emptied, it usually presents marks of 

 very intense inflammation. If the dog has been destroyed very 

 early in the complaint, the inflammatory markings may not be 

 very considerable, but, in every such instance even, which has 

 fallen under my notice, in some degree or other, they have still 

 been present ; while, in those cases where the animal had been 

 suffered to die of the disease, I never remember one in which 

 the morbid appearances were not considerable. The inner 

 surface, or rugous coat, is often livid, and not unfrequently 

 sprinkled over with pustular prominences ; it is not imusual, 

 likewise, for it to exhibit sphacelated ulcerous patches. I have 

 seen it actually perforated by the nioititication present. The 

 outer surface is seldom ^^holly free irom inflammatory marks 

 either, particularly along the great curvature ; and such is the 

 intensity of the inflammat (in, that I have seen blood extrava- 

 sated between the membranous and muscular coats. There are 

 seldom many fluid contents present, — the mass of ingesta 

 usually absorbs what may be there ; but when any such are 



