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of this demon, for she looked like one, I was foolishly, inexcusably im- 

 prudent. I went on my hands and knees, and brought my face nearly on 

 a level with hers, and gazed on those glaring eyes, and that horrible 

 countenance, until I seemed to feel the deathly influence of a spell stealing 

 over me. I was not afraid, but every mental and bodily power was in 

 a manner suspended. My countenance, perhaps, alarmed her, for she 

 sprang on me, fastened herself on my face, and bit through both my lips. 

 She then darted down stairs, and, I believe, was never seen again. I 

 always have nitrate of silver in my pocket, even now I am never with- 

 out it; I washed myself, and applied the caustic ..with some severity to 

 the wound ; and my medical adviser and valued friend, Mr. Millington, 

 punished me still more after I got home. My object was attained, although 

 at somewhat too much cost, for the expression of that brute's countenance 

 will never be forgotten. 



The later symptoms of rabies in this animal, no one, perhaps, has had 

 the opportunity of observing : we witness only the sullenness and the 

 ferocity. 



Rabies in the Fowl. Dr. Ashburner and Mr. King inoculated a hen 

 with the saliva from a rabid cow. They made two incisions through the 

 integument, under the wings, and then well rubbed into these cuts the 

 foam taken from the cow's mouth. She was after this let loose among 

 other fowls in the poultry-yard. The incisions soon healed, and their 

 places could with difficulty be discovered. Ten weeks passed over, when 

 she was observed to refuse her food, and to run at the other fowls. She 

 had a strange, wild appearance, and her eyes were bloodshot. Early on 

 the following morning her legs became contracted, so that she very soon 

 lost the power of standing upright. She remained sitting a long time, 

 with the legs rigid, refusing food and water, and appearing very irritable 

 when touched. She died in the evening, immediately after drinking a 

 large quantity of water which had been offered to her. 



Babies in the Badger. Hufeland, in his valuable Journal of Practical 

 Medicine, relates a case of a rabid female badger attacking two boys. 

 She bit them both, but she fastened on the thigh of one of them, and was 

 destroyed in the act of sucking his blood. The poor fellow died hydro- 

 phobous, but the other escaped. This fact, certainly, gives us no idea of 

 the general character of the disease in this animal ; but it speaks volumes 

 as to its ferocity. 



Rabies in the Wolf. Rabies is ushered in by nearly the same symptoms, 

 and pursues the same course in the wolf as in the dog, with this differ- 

 ence, which would be readily expected, that his ferocity and the mischief 

 which he accomplishes are much greater. The dog hunts out his own 

 species, and his fury is principally directed against them ; although, if he 

 meets with a flock of sheep, or a herd of cattle, he readily attacks them, 

 and, perhaps, bites the greater part of them. The dog, however, fre- 

 quently turns out of his way to avoid the human being, and seldom attacks 

 him without provocation. The wolf, on the contrary, although he com- 

 mits fearful ravages among the sheep and cattle, searches out the human 

 being as his favourite prey. He conceals himself near the entrance to the 

 village, and steals upon and wounds every passenger that he can get at. 

 There are several accounts of more than twenty persons having been 

 bitten by one wolf; and there is a fearful history of sixteen persons 

 perishing from the bite of one of these animals. This is in perfect agree- 



