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of the complaint. Some instances certainly occni' in the lajw 

 dog- breeds, where no alteration of temper whatever appears, 

 but these cases usually belong- to that variety of the disease 

 called dumb madness. In all others, a marked difference in 

 temper may be usually observed early in the complaint,which, 

 at first, consists rather of a pettish irritability than any settled 

 mischievous tendency ; and with few exceptions, a peculiar 

 impatience of restraint is manifested. The first offensive symp- 

 toms are often directed towards cats, while dog-s remain unmo- 

 lested. Next, however, dog-s, particularly strang-e ones, are 

 attacked, but those they are acquainted with are still safe ; and 

 as the complaint g-ains ground, even these are not spared. 



As the disease advances beyond the immediate attack of 

 these precursory symptoms, it assumes a more marked cha- 

 racter. It either, by its immediate communication with or 

 direct attack on the sensorium and organs of respiration, pro- 

 duces increased excitement of manner, quickness, and irrita- 

 bility : or otherwise, by confining- its specific inflammation 

 more particularly to the bowels, it appears under a milder 

 character of diminished energ-y and of more patient suffering. 

 These two leading- varieties in the complaint have given rise 

 to the distinctions known among- sportsmen, of raging and 

 dumb madness. But attention to the following- description 

 will shew that the symptoms that might be supposed pecu- 

 liar to one are so often blended with the other, that it is 

 impossible to separate them with nosolog-ical accuracy; for as 

 the distinctions that really belong- to the disease are the 

 effects of the difference of parts principally attacked by the 

 morbid inflammation, or, in other words, as the specific at- 

 tack may be more immediately confined to the cerebral, tho- 

 racic, or abdominal viscera; and as it is not uncommon for all 

 these parts to partake of the affection, sometimes in equal, 

 and, at others, in unequal deg-rees; so we can easily under- 

 stand how the principal symptoms which characterise tliese 

 two varieties may be blended in the same subject. For the 

 convenience, however, of noting such features as are in many 

 cases companions, 1 will proceed with each variety scpa- 



