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places; he may even at those periods be seen to lick the spot which 
another has just wetted; but if a peculiar eagerness accompanies this 
strange employment, if in the parlour, which is rarely disgraced by this 
evacuation, every corner is perseveringly examined, and licked with 
unwearied and unceasing industry, that dog cannot be too carefully 
watched ; there is great danger about him ; he may, without any other 
symptom, be pronounced to _- decidedly mui. I never knew a single 
mistake about this, 
“Much has been said of the profuse discharge of saliva from the 
mouth of the rabid dog. It is an undoubted fact that in this disease 
all the glands concerned in the secretion of saliva become increased in 
bulk and vascularity. The sublingual glands wear an evident character 
of inflammation; but it never equals the increased discharge that ac- 
companies epilepsy or nausea. The frothy spume at the corners of the 
mouth is not for a moment to be compared with that which is evident 
enough in both of these affections. It is a symptom of short duration, 
and seldom lasts longer than twelve hours. The stories that are told of 
the mad dog covered with froth are altogether fabulous, Thg dog 
recovering from or attacked by a fit may be seen in this state, but 
not the rabid dog. Fits are often mistaken for rabies, and hence the 
delusion. 
“The increased secretion of saliva soon passes away. It lessens in 
quantity ; it becomes thicker, viscid, adhesive, and glutinous. It clings 
to the corners of the ‘mouth, and probably more annoyingly so to the 
membrane of the’fauces, The human being is sadly distressed by it ; he 
forces it out with the greatest violence, or utters the falsely supposed 
bark of a dog in his attempts to force it from his mouth. This symptom 
occurs in the human being when the disease is fully established, or at a 
late period of it, The dog furiously attempts to detach it with his paws. 
“Tt is an early symptom in the dog, and it can scarcely be mistaken 
in him. When he is fighting with Ts: paws at the corners of his mouth, 
let no one suppose that a patie is sticking between the poor fellow’s 
teeth ; nor should any useless and datigerons effort be made to relieve 
him. If all this uneasiness arose from a bone in the mouth, the mouth 
would continue permanently open, instead of closing when the animal for 
a moment discontinues his efforts. If after a while he loses his balance 
and tumbles over, there can be no longer any mistake, It is the saliva 
becoming more and more glutinous, irritating the fauces, and threatening 
suffocation, 
To this naturally and rapidly succeeds an insatiable thirst. ‘The dis 
