316 THE DOG IN DISEASE. 



appear, and should assist in diagnosis. He will not nsnally 

 eat, and for this reason, and because of the general dis- 



Fig. 26. — Representation of a Dog affected with Rabies (after Sanson). 



turbance, sleeplessness, etc., he rapidly loses flesh. His 

 eyes, altered in expression from the first, get more abnor- 

 mal, and his whole appearance is extremely haggard. The 

 excitement may periodically result in convulsive parox- 

 ysms, death resulting in one of these, or from the exhaus- 

 tion that follows them. 



Diagnosis. — Discrimination lies between epilepsy, or 

 fits of various kinds, arising from the heat of the sun as 

 dogs run the streets, neuralgia, toothache, meningitis, ex- 

 cessive fright, acute ear disease, parasites in the nose or 

 brain, the distress of dogs lost in a large city, of bitches 

 deprived of whelps, etc. 



If the dog has been bitten and symptoms of a sus- 

 picious character follow^, he should be isolated at all events 

 and kept under observation. The bark of the rabid dog 

 is very characteristic, and careful examination and obser- 

 vation should enable one to distinguish between the dis- 



