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ceptionally there are attempts to bite. More commonly the 

 natural weapons of offense are employed, the animal kicks, 

 stamps, paws and, above all, tries to gore man or beast, but es- 

 pecially any dog which may appear. They even make such at- 

 tacks on purely imaginary beings and without any real, tangible 

 enemy present. The bull, cow or heifer present the usual signs 

 of genital orgasm. Appetite is lost or depraved and rumina- 

 tion arrested. Pharyngeal spasms or paralysis is not uncommon, 

 and signs of colic with frequent defecation may be seen. Violent 

 paroxysms are easily roused by the sight of a small animal and 

 especially of a dog. In these attacks the animal may break his 

 horns or teeth or otherwise injure himself. Sometimes the infec- 

 tion wound becomes irritable, itchy and red or even abraded and 

 raw by licking. 



The animal becomes rapidly exhausted and even emaciated by 

 the violence of the paroxysms, and paresis sets in with dragging 

 movements of the hind limbs, which advance to paraplegia and 

 general paralysis. Rolling of the eyes, squint/ng and pupillar 

 dilatation may be present. Death usually takes place from the 

 fourth to the sixth day. 



The purely paralytic rabies is not uncommon in cattle. There 

 may be persistent yawning or other sign of nervous exhaustion 

 or depression, halting on one or more limbs, usually behind, 

 which advances to complete paralysis. In other cases the symp- 

 toms are those of mental dulness, and profound lethargy with 

 gradually advancing emaciation. In paretic and paralytic cases 

 the characteristic paroxysms on presentation of a dog may be 

 absent. 



I^adague claims to have .seen intermittent cases with an interval 

 of 27 and even 36 days. 



Symptoms in Sheep and Goat. In these there is the sa^ne 

 regular succession of symptoms through intense hypersesthesia 

 and excitability, fury and genital excitement to the terminal 

 paralysis, or the palsy may set in early without premonitory 

 violence. Among the marked features have been noticed, a 

 change of expression, the pupils dilate, eyes flash, they lick or 

 mount their fellows, they lick or rub the bitten part, snort, stamp 

 or scrape with the fore feet, setting themselves in the attitude of 

 attack, they' may butt other sheep, fowls, and other animals, 



