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 as a caution, that now and then no inflammatioh is 

 evident in the bowels, but in these cases the inflam- 

 mation of the lungs will be sufficient to characterise 

 the disease, when, superadded to it, there exists the 

 appearance we shall next describe. I believe there 

 never was a mad dog, or a dog atfected with what is 

 known by the popular term madness, but who, from 

 some characteristic and specific affection of the sto- 

 mach and bowels, had a disposition to pick up and 

 swallow substances that at other times he would refuse. 

 This begins very early in the complaint, and con- 

 tinues sometimes all the way through it. Substances 

 the most incongruous are taken in. Hay, straw, rope, 

 stones, cinders, in fact every thing that can be swal- 

 lowed, is taken down, and are there retained after 

 the first day or two. More early in the complaint 

 there is often sickness of the stomach, and which some- 

 times continues, but still the appearances will be the 

 same ; still invariably, on dissection, when the stomach 

 is cut into, there will always appear a very large mass 

 within it, composed of substances unfit to be eaten. 

 This, it should be carefully remembered, is a sign of 

 tha existence of the disease, subject to the fewest ex- 

 ceptions of any one that we have noticed ; and when- 

 ever other circumstances have rendered the case 

 doubtful, if there exists this appearance (which if it 

 is madness there will be every probability of), that 

 then it need be no longer considered as a matter of 

 doubt, for I have never witnessed any thing like a 

 similar appearance in any other complaint. 



The whole of the under line of the stomach is se- 

 neraliy very highly inflamed ; often it is completely 

 gangreaous, Whea there has been much stupor and 



