434 TREATMENT OF CANINE MADNESS : [BOOK II. 



other signs of confirmed hydrophobia, it seems 

 clear that the catting off the immediate cause of 

 incipient rabies should press itself upon our notice 

 as the most efficacious means of warding off the 

 disease. Six months is no unusual time for dogs 

 to conceal rabid infection, a quarrelsome disposi- 

 tion being for a long time the only indication per- 

 ceptible; but the horse seldom goes beyond the 

 twentieth day in developing all the symptoms before 

 enumerated ; which shows that the peculiarly rapid 

 circulation of the blood, noticed elsewhere (page 1 71) 

 as the harbinger of inflammatory complaints of every 

 kind in the horse, naturally demands early and 

 copious bleeding as a good accessary remedy for 

 this particular one. In this case alone we should 

 not be solely guided as to the quantity of blood 

 proper to be taken by the quickness of the pulse, 

 or actual inflammatory indication, but its fulness, 

 and habit of the patient's body : empty his body 

 subsequently, as directed in cases of fever, with a 

 brisk purgative, as follows : 



Purgative Ball. 



Aloes, 7 drachms, 

 Calomel, half a drachm, 

 Hard soap, 3 drachms, 

 Oil of caraways, 12 drops. 



Mix with mucilage sufficient for one dose. If the 

 animal seem not otherwise to require purging physic, 

 omit the calomel, and omit it also if the bleeding 





