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Symptoms of 



master, or perhaps suddenly bites it, and then crouches 

 and asks pardon. As the disease proceeds, the eyes 

 become red ; they have a pecuhar bright and fierce ex- 

 pression ; some degree of strabismus or squinting very 

 early appears ; not the protrusion of the membrana nic- 

 titans, or haw, over the eye, which, in distemper, often 

 gives the appearance of squinting, but an actual distor- 

 tion of the eyes ; the lid of one eye is evidently more 

 contracted than the other : twitchings occur round that 

 eye ; they gradually spread over that cheek, and finally 

 over the whole face. In the latter stages of the disease 

 that eye frequently assumes a dull green colour, and at 

 length becomes a mass of ulceration. 



*' After the second day the dog usually begins to lose 

 a perfect control over the voluntary muscles. He 

 catches at his food with an eager snap, as if uncertain 

 whether he could seize it ; and he often fails in the 

 attempt. He either bolts his meat almost unchewed, or 

 in the attempt to chew it, suffers it to drop from his 

 mouth. This want of power over the muscles of the 

 jaw, tongue, and throat, increases, until the lower jaw 

 becomes dependent, the tongue protrudes from the 

 mouth, and is of a dark and almost black colour. The 

 animal is able, however, by a sudden convulsive effort to 

 close his jaws, and to inflict a severe bite. 



*' The dog is in incessant action : he scrapes his bed 

 together, disposes it under him in various forms, shifts 

 his posture every instant — starts up, and eagerly gazes 

 at some real or imaginary object: a peculiar kind of de- 

 lirium comes on : he traces the fancied path of ^me 

 imaginary object floating around him : he fixes his gaze 



