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In some cases emollient drinks and enemas, soft food, and 

 stimulating fever medicines have been followed by recovery. 

 Chlorate of potassa, nitre, iodide of potassium, and carbolic 

 acid have evidently been of advantage. Wet-sheet packing, as 

 for lung-fever, should be beneficial, and refrigerent or stimulating 

 diirretics (digitalis, nitre, or nitrous ether), accordmg to the 

 indications of the particular case. Peculiarities in different 

 cases would demand a variation of treatment. The diet 

 throughout should be of soft mashes, and a return to ordinary 

 fibrous aliment made slowly and carefully, as being liable to 

 cut off by gastro-entritis. 



CANINE MADNESS. RABIES. (hYDROPHOBIa). 



A specific disease supposed to arise spontaneously in the 

 genus canis (dog, wolf, fox), and in the cat, but transmissible 

 by inoculation to all the domestic animals and to man. It is 

 marked by disorders of intellectual, emotional, and nervous 

 functions, altered habits, irritable temper, optical delusions, 

 spasms of the muscles of the eyeballs and throat, paralysis, and 

 more or less fever. 



Causes. — Inoculation by bite is the usual (almost invariable) 

 cause, yet cases manifestly arise spontaneously in most countries. 

 Season, climate, abuse, privation of water, improper food, 

 muzzling, etc., have no effect further than they serve to pro- 

 duce a febrile state and hasten the development of the disease 

 when the seeds are already implanted in the system. A con- 

 stantly increasing mass of testimony points to the conclusion 

 that the restraint of an ungovernable sexual desire is one cause 

 of the generation of the malady, and it is even supposed that 

 the maternal instinct has had a similar effect after the puppies 

 have been removed. Males chiefly suffer, partly, no doubt, 

 from their special liability to natural exciting causes, but mainly 

 because the rabid dog is far more likely to bile a male than a 

 female. 



