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friends, a symptom which ought to be particularly 

 regarded. Rabid dogs have been seen to eat their 

 own excrement, and lap their own urine, besides 

 other marks of depraved appetite ; though at this 

 early stage of the complaint they are less likely to 

 attack a horse than to resent an affront, or be guilty 

 of treachery towards friends. But as the disorder 

 increases, he shows an inordinate desire to gnaw 

 any substance whatever, and evinces augmented 

 antipathy to cats. Even the dog called Danish, 

 though mostly kept with, and very fond of horses, 

 would, as soon as affected, be the most likely to 

 snap at his old companions' noses. As the malady 

 increases, his eyes become inflamed, and are af- 

 fected with a blearing from the lids. He howls 

 horridly when the throat is inflamed at the larynx, 

 or part whence the voice (barking) proceeds ; the 

 which sound, whoever has once heard, he can 

 never afterwards forget or mistake, unless he him- 

 self be bit, or become deaf. The confirmedly mad 

 dog now usually sits upon his rump to howl his 

 obstructed bark, through very pain from apparent 

 intestinal inflammation. If suffered to range about 

 as the last stages approach, he seems bewildered 

 and devoid of sight, and should be either avoided 

 or attacked with clubs and other weapons to extir- 

 pation : feeble opposition is obviously dangerous. 



The symptoms of hydrophobia coming on upon 

 the horse are dirtect and positive ; blood on the lip, 

 and other marks of violence, convey the first in- 

 telligence that the mischief has been inflicted ; for 



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