290 THE DISEASES AND DISORDERS OP THE OX. 



hounds to be sent to other kennels. The serious outbreak which 

 occurred in this year spread widely as a result of the insufficiency 

 of the police measures. Our readers are fully aware of the 

 epizooty which has recently prevailed in England in 1887 and 

 the early part of 1888. 



Symptoms of Kabies in the Ox. — An ox suffering from 

 rabies manifests a diminished or depraved appetite, prostration, 

 a restless excitability, muscular tremblings, a nearly constant 

 flow of saliva from the mouth, a difficulty in swallowing, 

 disagreeable sensations in the seat of the wound, and halluci- 

 nations. There are paroxysms in which the eyes stare brilliantly 

 and look inflamed, while the pupils are dilated, and the mouth 

 is hot and foamy, and the voice dull and hoarse. The animal 

 bellows frequently, agitates its jaws, scrapes the ground with its 

 fore-feet, throws behind it the earth or the litter, falls down 

 and rolls, and if tied up tries to get away for the purpose of 

 rushing to and fro. 



The secretion of milk is suspended in the case of milch 

 cows, and frequently the animals attack other animals and 

 men. They strike with their horns, or foreheads if they have 

 no horns, at any obstacles in their way with such great fury 

 that their horns are fractured, and the forehead may present the 

 appearance of a mass of blood. They only very rarely try to 

 bite. They cease to chew the cud. The feces, at first expelled 

 at long intervals and in small quantity, become at a later period 

 liquid, and are often passed involuntarily, though at other times 

 the rectum itself may be protruded, owing to the energetic 

 attempts made to expel its contents. The animal becomes 

 extremely emaciated, and at last paralysis of the posterior 

 extremities ensues. The cattle then lie down, and are not 

 capable of getting up, and finally they perish in a state of pro- 

 found coma. The disease, in the case of the ox, seldom lasts 

 for more than four to seven days, and, as in other creatures, it is 

 always fatal. 



In regard to the subject of rabies in ruminants we think it well here to add 

 some observations extracted from the Lancet of September 15th, 1888. It appears 

 that the paper from which the remarks were taken was inserted in the Journal 

 Officiel of August 27th, 1888, and the author of it is M. Pion, veterinary inspector 

 of the slaughter yards at La Villette. This veterinarian states that as a rule, 

 when bovine animals are afl3.icted,with rabies, the disease does not possess either 



