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eyes, which, for the want of a more expressive term, I have 

 called glistening. But I do not think any one could safely 

 undertake to select a rabid sheep from a flock, even if one 

 was known to be there, by this indication alone. Yet 

 obscure as is this symptom, it is the only one which distin- 

 guishes the rabid sheep, in appearance, from one in perfect 

 health, until emaciation and the other later effects of the 

 malady exhibit themselves. The animal is as gregarious as 

 ever ; eats its food and ruminates as placidly as usual ; looks 

 as plump, bright and healthy as any sheep in the flock ; half 

 an hour later, with looks entirely unchanged, unless in the 

 trifling particular named, it is moving round restlessly and 

 incessantly among its companions, struck by a malady which 

 has transformed the habits of its sex* — which no human 

 power can arrest or even palliate — and which will know no 

 respite until terminated in a miserable death. 



The subsequent occurrence and progress of the symptoms, 

 in the cases observed by me, were about as follows : — The 

 rabid sheep both exhibited and provoked extreme rage when 

 they were iirst put in a pen with other rabid sheep ; they 

 fought or pursued each other fiercely ; but this mood soon 

 subsided in the new comers, and for the next twenty-four 

 hours they remained comparatively peaceable, at least unag- 

 gressive, but they were ever ready to fight on being ridden. 

 On the second day the depraved appetite manifested itself, 

 and they began to rub their heads against fences, walls, etc., 

 and to scratch them with their own hind-feet, leading to the 

 inference that they were suffering some cerebral pain. The 

 part of the head invariably rubbed was that over the parietal 

 bones. On the second or third day the scars left by the dog's 

 teeth looked red and inflamed. The sheep were more restless 

 and irritable ; they frequently assailed their companions 

 without any provocation; they fiercely butted, and two of 

 them actually bit at a stick, as often as it was pushed against 

 or towards them. On the third or fourth day they rushed at 

 a man if he entered their pen — bounded forward and dashed 

 against the fence which separated them from him, on his 

 thrusting a stick at them. Three of them thus charged the 

 fence, if only a hat or handkerchief was shaken towards them. 

 Two were so ungovernably fierce at times that they sprung at 

 a bystander if he uttered a sound or merely approached their 

 pen. They bounded forward when they made these assaults, 



* At least 80 in the case of ewes. 



