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foxhounds, by whom he had been allowed to mix with the pack 

 in kennel, or, at all events, at exercise. Ten days after my 

 purchase arrived, during the whole of which time he was tied up, 

 he one morning began to show slight symptoms of rabies, refusing 

 to take a bone from my servant's hand, but gnawing it voraciously 

 when thrown to him. On attempting to approach him, an inmate 

 of my family was bitten slightly in the hand, but, immediately 

 sucking it, no injurious consequences followed. The symptoms 

 rapidly ran on, till by the afternoon he was undoubtedly rabid, 

 and I removed him by means of a noose run through a ring at 

 the end of a long mop-stick, to a small and safe box. Here I 

 was able to watch the development of the disease, and supply 

 water as often as wanted. The dog was constantly jumping up 

 at the hole through which the water was lowered, and would 

 upset the vessel containing it time after time. On the second 

 day the violence was intense ; everything which came within 

 reach was torn to pieces ; but towards evening he was unable to 

 reach the hole, which was in the top of a common-sized door ; 

 and late at night I left him lying on his side, paralysed and 

 slightly convulsed the next morning he was dead and cold. 

 The eyes had been very prominent, and the whites were injected 

 with red blood to such an extent, as to raise the conjunctiva 

 into a distinct fold at the edge of the cornea. The saliva ran 

 freely to the last, and the thirst continued apparently till death 

 at all events as long as water was supplied ; but, after the 

 morning of the second day, it was impossibly to get it down to 

 the ground before it was upset by the violence of the dog. 



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