perceive. Flies are eagerly watched by thein, and 

 snapped at with great eagerness, and frequently, from 

 the deceptive vision, they appear to see them when 

 they do not. 



In many (I might say in most) of them there is a 

 remarkable tendency to carry straw about in their 

 mouths, industriously appearing to make a bed ; and 

 when they are littered down with it they are common- 

 ly observed scratching it under their bellies, as tliough 

 anxious to apply it to the belly. This will be found 

 to be also a most unerring criterion of the complaint. 

 Whenever it has occurred, I have found the intestines 

 after death very highly inflamed. Gnawing is almost 

 invariable with them also : boards, chains, the vessel 

 that holds their food or water, are gnawed, and some- 

 times taken up and shook with immense violence. 



The attempts to escape form a very remarkable 

 trait in the disease. Whenever the madness is not 

 of the stupid heavy kind, there is almost always a very 

 great anxiety to escape, and which is not the effect of 

 pain nor of delirium, but is a most peculiar disposi 

 tion to propagate the disease solely ; for, having ram- 

 bled about, biting every animal that comes in his 

 way, such a dog, if he is not worried or hunted, returns 

 home in a few hours. This fact is not known in the 

 country, for there a dog is soon discovered, and is 

 soon hunted ; and if he is not overtaken, he is too 

 frightened to return immediately, and he falls a sacri- 

 iice in sonje other village or town. The very hunt- 

 ing makes him more mad, or otherwise there would 

 seldom be much ferocity ; and it is but seldom but 

 such a dojr would return when he was tired- Having 

 tired himself, unless molested he returns home ; and 



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