288 THE DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE OX. 



From June, 1843, to July, 1844, an epizooty, which was in 

 ail probability one of rabies, spread among cattle in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Heyden, Rheinland. The rabid animals ran, with 

 heads tossed up and wild looks, madly round the pastures, 

 goring and striking at all other animals with their horns, and 

 they bellowed continuously, so as to strike all hearers with 

 terror. They foamed at the mouth, and the hind quarters grew 

 more and more weak, and so rapidly that, usually on the third 

 day, the animals were stretched on the ground. If at large, 

 they rushed straight on over everything, until they fell over 

 some obstacle, and lay still, apparently exhausted. Any fluids 

 poured in the mouth were sucked down, but a motion as of 

 choking was observed, and a twitching of the muscles of the face. 

 Most of them died about the end of the fourth day, and Dr. 

 Adolphi considered this to be an instance of spontaneous rabies, 

 as no mad dog could be discovered to have been implicated in 

 the infection. 



In 1851 a mad wolf near Hue-au-Gal, in France, bit in a 

 single day forty-six persons and eighty-two head of cattle. One 

 person died after another in frightful agonies. As for the cattle, 

 they were purposely destroyed. 



In 1856 rabies prevailed in England to a great extent at 

 Stainborough, near Barnsley. The disease was transmitted to a 

 herd of deer, probably in the latter part of 1855, very soon after 

 one or more mad dogs had roamed about the vicinage. About 

 one hundred deer and six dogs died. These ordinarily innocent 

 and playful animals foamed at the mouth, and, like dogs, worried 

 each other, tearing the hair and flesh, and when in confinement 

 bit at whatever came within their reach. In the same year 

 rabies broke out in a flock of sheep at Nuffield, in Berkshire. 

 A strange dog was found by the farmer's son, and beside it two 

 ewes were lying dead, and two others so badly injured that they 

 were afterwards killed. The dog on being pelted with stones ran 

 away. About twenty more sheep were wounded more or less in 

 the regions of the nose and ears, and they were therefore placed 

 in a fold by themselves. Two or three weeks afterwards several 

 of them showed symptoms of madness, and fifteen of them 

 lambed, the lambs being brought up by hand. Those ewes 

 which became rabid trotted backwards and forwards by the sides 

 of the fold, biting at the hurdles, tearing mouthfuls of wool from 



