42G RABIES. 



snorting, and foaming amidst the ruins. The disease fol- 

 lows the inoculation, at the same periods as in other 

 animals, that is, from five weeks to three months : but its 

 attack is always quickest when the bite is received upon 

 the head. On examination of the morbid appearances 

 after death, there was in two cases great inflammatory 

 marks in the lungs, as well as in all the thoracic viscera ; 

 the stomach and bowels also, particularly the latter, parti- 

 cipated in the affection. The meninges of the brain were 

 likewise suffused with blood. In another case, to this last 

 symptomatic appearance was added a softening of the spinal 

 cord, while the medullary mass resembled a thin caseous 

 matter. The salivary glands, and particularly the parotids, 

 were exceedingly red and infiltrated with yellow serosity. 

 All the parts of the head would be rendered highly vascu- 

 lar from exertions, such as it is impossible that any one can 

 conceive without witnessing them : but no engorgement of 

 the salivary organs, beyond the surrounding parts, existed in 

 the two cases first alluded to, nor have they appeared in 

 those detailed by others. The whole muscular system is 

 discoloured and softened, the cellular texture being studded 

 with ecchymosis. Inflammation at the back part of the 

 mouth, and at the top of the windpipe, has likewise been 

 observed. 



Rabies in the ox, sheep, and swine, produces also phrenitic 

 symptoms ; the harmless sheep is changed into so ferocious 

 an animal, that he has been known to butt at his own 

 shadow reflected by the sun on a door. In sheep, the 

 general appearances after death also resemble those usually 

 present in the horse : it must, however, be remembered, 

 that in no two cases of any animal whatever are they exactly 

 similar ; but in all, marks of violent and almost universal 

 vascukir action predominate. However, inflammation of 

 the glottis, epiglottis, and usually of the trachea, are almost 

 constant rabid post-mortem appearances. Inflammation of 

 the stomachs is not always present in the ruminants, though 

 seldom absent in the horse. 



Treatment. — Our efforts must be principally directed to 

 a preventive plan ; for nothing we yet know of will arrest 

 the disease when it has actually appeared. When a bite 



