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fury. With this there is constant watchfuhiess, and sometimes a 

 peculiarly hollow howl, while at others no sound whatever is 

 given, the case being then described as " dumb madness." Fever 

 is always present, but it is difficult to ascertain its extent on 

 account of the danger of approaching the patient, and with this 

 (in contradiction to the name hydrophobia) there is invariably an 

 urgent thirst, which the dog is in such a hurry to gratify that he 

 generally upsets the vessel containing his water. Mr. Grantley 

 Berkeley maintains very strongly than no dog really attacked 

 with rabies will touch water, and that the presence of thirst is a 

 clear sign of the absence of this disease ; but this ojDinion is so 

 entirely in ojDposition to the careful accounts given by all those 

 who have witnessed the disease when it had unquestionably been 

 communicated either to man or to some of the lower animals, that 

 no reliance ought to be placed upon it, especially where so im- 

 portant a stake is involved. Mr Youatt witnessed more cases of 

 rabies than perhaps any equally good observer ever did, and he 

 strongly insists upon the presence of thirst, as may be gathered 

 from the concluding portion of the following extract : — 



" Some verj'' important conclusions may be drawn from the 

 appearance and character of the urine. The dog, and at particu- 

 lar times when he is more than usually salacious, may, and does 

 diligently search the urining places ; he may even at those periods 

 be seen to lick the spot which another has just wetted ; but, if a 

 peculiar eagerness accompanies this strange employment, if, in 

 the parlour, which is rarely disgraced by this evacuation, every 

 corner is perse veringly examined, and licked with unwearied and 



