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■dirt. It is rare he turns from his path to attack anything 

 {unless it be an animal of the same species^ to which they 

 invariably show the greatest animosity), but woe betide 

 anyone who attempts to stay his onward course. This pace 

 is continued with little intermission until exhaustion over- 

 takes him, or it may be a fit, when he creeps into an obscure 

 place, and lies in a fatigued or comatose state for hours. 



Such then as' I have endeavoured clearly to desribe them, 

 are the leading symptoms of tlys horrible malady. 



Tranquil or Dumb Madness^- — The general symptoms in 

 this form of rabies are much the same as in the preceding, 

 with the exception of absence of voice, modification of ner- 

 vous excitability, and paralysis of the muscles of the lower 

 jaw. The latter is a curious and characteristic feature in 

 this type of the malady. As I observed in Land and 

 Water with regard to the Albrighton hounds, " No par- 

 ticular period can be \given at which this symptom is 

 •observed. One at feeding time had refused its food, and 

 in three hours after its jaw had dropped ; another apparenly 

 well at night was found similarly affected the following 

 morning, and, in fact, in many of them this paralysis was 

 noticed, before any other symptom." 



Frequently in packs of hounds the two forms of rabies 

 ■exhibit themselves simultaneously, and as inoculation from 

 glanders produces farcy, and vice versd, so ferocious mad- 

 ness may give rise to the dumb or furious form. 



Maternal affection is not interfered with.* 



* " The maternal affection for its young remains as strong in the 

 rabid as it is in the healthy dog. M. Defays, a professor at the Brussels 

 Veterinary School, gives an instance of a bitch that had three puppies. 



.and two days afterwards suddenly exhibited all the symptoms of rabies. 

 Notwithstanding the severe attacks of the malady, the poor creature 



■continued to suckle its young, and ran anxiously to them when they 

 emitted the slightest cry ; not being able to swallow any fluid, however, 

 the secretion of milk was suspended, and the puppies died. 

 " But this event did not alter its desire to be near, and to fondle 



ithem, and to cover them over with straw, as if to hide them ; it was 



