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which is sometimes small but not usually rapid ; 

 the appetite remains, there is also a general 

 vivacity, but the bowels are usually constipated, 

 and there is little fever present. The limbs do 

 not always lose their powers of movement, 

 although the ability to stand is absent. These 

 cases are best treated by the practical veterinary 

 surgeon, as it is necessary to use nox vomica in 

 minute doses, and also strychnine, which being 

 very dangerous drugs should only be used by 

 practical men. 



EABIES OE MADNESS. 



There is yet another disease with which the 

 horse is at times affected, which is sometimes 

 mistaken for mad staggers. The cases are rare ; 

 happily it is so. This disease is rabies or mad- 

 ness, the symptoms of which are that while the 

 horse is apparently in good health it will stop all 

 of a sudden, be seized with a trembling all over 

 its body, will paw the ground violently, heave 

 heavily, stagger, and fall down ; in a few seconds 

 it will rise again and proceed a little way on 

 its journey, when it will again stand still, look 

 anxiously about and will again come down, it 

 will again get up and is then seized with a 

 paroxysm of frenzy, attempting to bite everything 

 that comes in its way, and will kick and plunge 

 in a most fearful manner, and if in a stable will 

 strike the wall or the sides of its stall, or indeed 

 any object that may be near, until the perspira- 



