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rouse. Paralytic and apathetic forms wind up the furious ; cases with in- 

 termittent attacks. Diagnosis : by marked change of disposition or habit, 

 voice, appetite, any hypertesthesia, strabismus, watching or snapping at 

 unreal objects, taciturnity, fury in presence of other dog or stranger, snap- 

 ping, biting without giving voice, furj' when threatened with stick, open 

 mouth without disposition to paw it, lack of muscular coordination, paresis, 

 paralysis. Distinction from lactation anaemia, bone in palate or throat, 

 dislocation of maxilla, stomato-pharyngitis, cutaneous hyperffisthesia, 

 pharyngeal anthrax, epilepsy, pentastoma, cysticercus, filaria immitis, 

 nematodes, and taeniae, auricular acariasis. Symptoms in cats : changed 

 voice, depraved appetite, hiding, restlessness, irritability, bites, scratches, 

 ' man or dog. Symptoms in solipeds : trembling, hypersesthesia, easily 

 startled, ears and eyes alert, dilated flashing pupils, roused by dog or 

 stranger, attacks with teeth and heels, mischievous, pawing, kicking, roll- 

 ing, rising, straining to urinate or defecate, neighing, sniffling, snorting, 

 everting upper lip, grinding teeth, biting, stiffness or impaired control of 

 limbs, generative excitement, spasms, paralysis, hyperthermia, perspiration. 

 Symptoms in cattle : irritability, restlessness, alert head, ears, eyes, squint- 

 ing, dilated pupils, loud bellowing, lashing tail, or docility, yet pursues a 

 dog, using horns, heels, (exceptionally teeth), stamps, paws, has genital 

 excitement, anorexia, spasms, weakness, paraplegia. Symptoms in sheep 

 and goat ; hyperaesthesia, irritability, genital excitement, fury in presence 

 of dog, stamps, butts, paws, snorts, bleats, grinds teeth, becomes paretic, 

 and paraplegic. Symptoms in camels and deer : camels show furious and 

 paralytic forms, biting and snorting ; deer have hyperaesthesia merging 

 into paralysis. Symptoms in swine : extreme irritability, restlessness, start 

 at slightest cause or none, tremors, squealing, jerking, grinding teeth, 

 clenching jaws, bite especially a dog, or not, weakness, lethargy, paralysis. 

 Symptoms in rabbits and Guinea pigs ; may be furious, more often para- 

 lytic. Symptoms in birds : restlessness, ruiHing of feathers, pecking or 

 striking man or dog, or at phantom, palsy. Symptoms in wild carnivora : 

 lose fear of man, approach and attack him, are furious and later paralytic. 

 Skunks bite slyly. Symptoms in man : irritable cicatrix, anxiety, 

 sighing, tremor, insomnia, bad dreams, fever, thirst, spasms of throat when 

 seeing, hearing or taking liquids, dyspnoea, retching, vomiting, spasms, 

 roused by noise, squinting, dilated pupils, mental delusions, reticence, 

 taciturnity, suspicion, mania, exhaustion, paresis, paralysis. Lyssophobia , 

 its detection and cure. 



Synonyms. Canine madne.ss ; Rabidtis Canis ; I^yssa ; I^ytta ; 

 Cynolyssa. 



Definition. Rabies is an acute, infectious disease, affecting 

 the cerebral and medullary nervous centres and characterized by 

 intellectual, emotional, aggressive and other nervous disorders 

 and by extreme reflex excitability. 



