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will take to water, and one in a very high state of 

 excitement was known to have run into a river. 

 Suppression of urine next proves that the inflam- 

 mation has reached the region of the kidneys, which 

 is effected by way 01 the stomach ; perspiration and 

 excessive exacerbation ensue, with inflammation of 

 the parts of generation, accompanied by contraction 

 in the male — yet a gelding was found to have 

 protruded its sheath ; and staled with much pain 

 to the amount of half a pint, about the twenty- 

 fourth day. 



Weakness of the back and loins sometimes is 

 observable at any period of the disease ; some quad- 

 rupeds being thus attacked, and falling down mad 

 without previous indication of rabies. 



The eyes glassy, fiery or red — loss of vision ; 

 tongue sometimes shoved out, and then gnashing 

 of the teeth. The raging symptoms increase from 

 the twenty-second or twenty-fourth day to the 

 twenty-eighth or thirtieth day after being bitten, 

 when the animal will beat itself to death, unless 

 the owner more humanely puts it out of pain with 

 a musket : for 'tis dangerous to approach within 

 reach : the interposition of a strong gate across the 

 stable, and the application of a beast rope well 

 fastened, are good preventives of accident during 

 this final operation, or a cart that will bear some 

 kicking might be backed upon him. 



Regimen. — None will afford any permanent re- 

 lief, though it has been usual to place before it 

 water as a test of its madness — though now known 



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