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feat ? Increased pulsation, inflamed throat, and evident thickening of the 

 membrane that lines it ; soon after, the stomach being also inflamed, rejecta 

 food, or the patient is at least indifferent to it, which may occur about the 

 eighteenth dr^y after the inoculation ; four or five earlier if the animal be in 

 good condition, so still sooner if high fed and full of blood. Shortly after, i. e. 

 from five to eight days, the bitten parts enlarge, and difl[iculty of swallowing 

 evidently proves that the disorder is making progress; the patient rubs the 

 part against the manger, stall, or wall, increasing in vehemence from the 

 twentieth or twenty-third day. He does not drink water freely, as usual, 

 though this is by no means a certain criterion, for his power of swallowing is 

 already imperfect : he does not flinch from water when sprinkled over his face, 

 but will even drink to the amount of a pailful, when occasionally he can find free 

 passage for it, and the whim may be said to seize him. Some rabid horses 

 will take to water, and one in a very high state of excitement was known to 

 have run into a river. Suppression of urine next proves that the inflamma- 

 tion has reached the region of the kidneys, which is effected by way of the 

 stomach ; perspiration and excessive exacerbation ensue, with inflammation 

 of the parts of generation, accompanied by contraction in the male — yet a geld- 

 ing was found to have protruded its sheath, and staled with much pain to the 

 amount of half a pint, about the twenty-fourth day. 



Weakness of the back and loins sometimes is observable at any period of 

 the disease; some quadrupeds being thus attacked, and falling down mad 

 without previous indication of rabies. 



The eyes glassy, fiery or red — loss of vision ; tongue sometimes shoved out, 

 and then gnashing of the teeth. The raging symptoms increase from the 

 twenty -second or twenty-fourth day to the twenty-eighth or thirtieth day after 

 being bitten, when the animal will beat itself to death, unless the owner more 

 humanely puts it out of pain with a musket ; for 'tis dangerous to approach 

 within reach: the interposition of a strong gate across the stable, and the ap- 

 plication of a strong rope well fastened, arc good preventives of accident 

 during this final operation, or a cart that will bear some kicking might be 

 employed. 



Reg^imen. — None will afford any permanent relief, though it has been usual 

 to place before it water as a test of its madness — though now known to be a 

 fallacious one in any state of the disorder with any animal whatever. All 

 horses continue to feed up to a certain period — until the stomach is attacked — 

 and some eat voraciously in the intervals of the fits, and drink too, but no good 

 can be expected from either, unless made the vehicles for the introduction of 

 some nostru-m. If a cure be attempted, certainly nutritious food, easy of di- 

 gestion, and cooling, must assist it. The stomach being very much inflamed 

 in this disorder, points out the propriety of bran mashes, marshmallows, and 

 of water gruel, given cold, which will afford the means of alleviating the an- 

 guish of that organ, to the coats whereof the last food taken by the expiring 

 patient has been found to adhere after death; that is to say, the fibrous coat 

 of the stomach of the subject alluded to identified itself with the food so inti 

 mately, that it stripped off. whilst the insensible coat still adhered. 



Remedy. — Every possible remedy, some of them of opposite tendency, has 

 been tried on the dog, and on man. Sea-bathing, the Ormskirk medicine, 

 copious bleeding, excision of the part, the actual cautery, and cupping the 

 parts, have been each employed — successfully, we are told; but no reliance 

 can be placed on either, since they oftener fail, though there is no reason why 

 the horse should not undergo bleeding and cutting off the laceration as soon 

 'ihex the accident as possible. When we consider that the part bitten is ever 

 observed to enlarge previous to the horse showing other signs of confirmed 

 hydrophobia, it seems clear that the cutting off the immediate caiise af incipi- 



