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three-quarters of an hour to an hour at each visit, carefully 

 noting the appearance and actions of the sheep, and keep- 

 ing a separate and continuous record of each case, as I 

 was able to do without the least danger of mistaking one 

 animal for another — as every one exhibited its number 

 clearly printed on its side. 



The history of these cases is published fuUy in the annual 

 volume of Transactions of the New York State Agricultural 

 Society for 1862, and is quite too long for re-publication here. 

 The recapitulation appended by me to that history is as 

 follows : 



SUMMAET. 



The cases I have described jsresent variations in the minor 

 developments of rabies, owing perhaps to individual peculiari- 

 ties of the different animals ; but, as a whole, there has been 

 a remarkable identity in the general symptoms. 



Assuming that the rabid sheep, which I have designated 

 as No. 3, was seen by me on the first day of the attack of the 

 disease — a fact of which I entertain no doubt after comparing 

 the subsequent symptoms with those of the later ones — and 

 estimating the two first numbered cases to have had the 

 average duration of the other five, the period of " incubation " 

 in the whole seven, (that is, the period between the sheep's 

 being bitten and the appearance of rabies,) ranged from 

 fifteen to twenty- six days, and averaged about twenty- one 

 days. 



The first observed symptom, in every case which was 

 seen at or near its commencement, was the same, viz., 

 ungovernable apparent salacity, (lust,) manifested not accord- 

 ing to the sex ot the patients — all of which were ewes, and 

 supposed to be in lamb — but in the manner in which the 

 ram exhibits sexual heat. This resemblance extended to the 

 minutest particulars in movements, postures, and in that 

 characteristic note with which the male animal expresses 

 desire as he approaches and importunes the female. In no 

 instance did the rabid ewe show any of the usual indications of 

 rutting. She incessantly attempted to ride her companions, 

 but uniformly manifested rage, and turned and fought the one 

 attemptiug to ride her. This propensity remained active 

 until the sheep became too weak to exercise it, and never 

 entirely ceased. 



In all the cases, rumination was totally suspended from the 

 first visible attack of the disease until death ; and throughout 



