CHAP. III.] OF HYDROPHOBIA. 4ol 



neither horses, sheep, nor neat cattle incur rabies 

 without inoculation. We are further told, by M. 

 Husart, that they do not possess the power of com- 

 municating the disease by bite to other animals, 

 even though labouring under the highest degree of 

 hydrophobia at the time ; a fact we do not further 

 vouch for, but which, when proven by well-marked 

 cases, would go far towards inspiring confidence 

 and certainty in applying any of the alleged reme- 

 dies. What man is bold enough to administer a 

 ball, for example, whose own life is at stake, in- 

 gloriously,by the feat? Increased pulsation, inflamed 

 throat, and evident thickening of the membrane 

 that lines it; soon after, the stomach being also 

 inflamed, rejects food, or the patient is at least in- 

 different to it, which may occur about the eighteenth 

 day after the inoculation ; four or five earlier if the 

 animal be in good condition, so still sooner if high 

 fed and full of blood. Shortly after, i. e. from 

 five to eight days, the bitten parts enlarge, and dif- 

 ficulty of swallowing, evidently prove that the dis- 

 order is making progress ; the patient rubs the part 

 against the manger, stall, or wall, increasing in 

 vehemence from the twentieth or twenty-third day. 

 He does not drink water freely, as usual, though 

 this is by no means a certain criterion, for his power 

 of swallowing is already imperfect: he does not 

 flinch from water when sprinkled over his face, but 

 j will ever drink to the amount of a pailful, when 

 occasionally he can find free passage for it, and the 

 whim may be said to seize him. Some rabid horses 



