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or stinking meat, and, in some cases, rotten eggs or fish. He 

 soon becomes restless in the extreme, getting up and changing his 

 position every five minutes or oftener, and appearing dissatisfied 

 with his bed, which he will scratch continually, and often in a 

 rage tear all to pieces. As the disease advances he becomes so 

 irritable as to be indifferent to everything about him which 

 usually would engage his attention, and is constantly occupied in 

 watching some fancied enemy, which he often snaps at, and 

 is evidently annoyed at missing. The eye looks wild and suspi- 

 cious, but in this" stage is not more red than usual. The mouth 

 is generally frothy, and soon runs with saliva-, though in some 

 few cases it is dry and parched. There is not, however, so much 

 saliva as in epileptic fits, but there is more than usual, and gene- 

 rally enough to show at the corners of the mouth when shut. 

 There is insatiable thirst always, and this should be known to 

 everyone, since, as I before remarked, the fear of water is often 

 ignorantly supposed to indicate rabies, and the absence of this 

 symptom consequently leads to an unsafe confidence in the sanity 

 of the dog. These premonitory symptoms are found in all dogs 

 which are becoming rabid. The confirmed disease shows itself 

 either in violent raging and unmanageable mania, or in what is 

 called dumb madness, in which paralysis of the muscles of the 

 lower jaw, coming on early in the attack, prevents the employment 

 of the only offensive weapon which the dog possesses, viz. his 

 mouth. There is in both kinds, however, the same tendency 

 to keep trotting on somewhere, and to attack everything which 

 interferes with this instinct. From the earliest appearance 



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