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may have bitten several persons while Hvlng. Under 

 these circumstances, it is evident that it would be of 

 the very first importance to be able, from an atten- 

 tive observation of the body after death, to pronounce 

 with certainty whether the animal died mad or of 

 some other disease. 



I shall shew that this may readily be done, and 

 with me it is as easy to pronounce on the disease 

 from the internal appearances after death, as though 

 I had watched it during its whole progress. Begin- 

 ning with the head, it will be found that in those who 

 have exhibited much irritability, panting, and dispo- 

 sition to mischief, there is always more or less in- 

 creased vascularity of the brain ; but that the in- 

 flatnmation never exists in any degree sufficient to 

 make it a very important mark. Where the mouth 

 and tiiroat have been affected, there is also, on exa» 

 mination, some slight inflammation and swelling; but 

 by no means are these appearances after death at all 

 in proportion to the degree of affection that prevailed 

 during life. It is to the lungs, the stomach, and the 

 bowels, that we must look for marks of specific affec- 

 tion after death, Remarkabfe as k may appear 

 among the numerous observatfons by various authors 

 on this peculiar complaint, none have gone so far as 

 to notice tlie cause of it, or to mention the appear- 

 ances after death, and which appearances are first 

 detailed in these pages, except what have appeared 

 from the same pen in the New Cyclopaedia of Dr. 

 Rees, In human subjects who have died of hydro- 

 phobia, it is remarkable that hardly any alteration of 

 the organs of the body is discoverable after death ; 

 while iu the dog in every instance vast and decided 



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