ON ANIMAL AND 



nity of the part where the wound had been in- 

 flicted ; which not unfrequently is followed by 

 swelling and inflammation immediately round the 

 citatrix or scab, if the wound had been previously 

 healed, which in most instances is the case ; the 

 cicatrix becoming elevated, hard, and extremely 

 painful. This pain extends to all the surrounding 

 muscles ; and, following the course of the absorb- 

 ents, it advances towards the trunk. If the wound 

 has not healed, it increases in size and inflam- 

 mation upon the approach of the hydrophobial 

 symptoms, and becomes a painful and rancorous 

 ulcer. Upon other occasions, all the symptoms 

 have been ushered in without any local irritation, 

 the cicatrix remaining unaltered to the last, and 

 in some instances has been entirely obliterated. 



A general indisposition, loss of appetite, lan- 

 guor, a timid anxiety about the nature of the 

 malady which is often attributed to the wrong 

 cause, disturbed sleep, frightful dreams, frequent 

 sighing, an uneasy sensation about the praecordia, 

 and other symptoms similar to the first attack 

 of low nervous fever, mark the commencement 

 of this most lamentable malady; and which, on 

 some occasions, have continued several days be- 

 fore the real disease has been identified. At 

 other times, the unequivocal symptoms of hydro- 

 phobia have come on at once, without any previ- 

 ous indisposition ; and in that case, they have 

 been ascertained by the early occurrence of the 



