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In addition to these typical forms there are others hold 

 ing an intermediate place. The furious fonn is especially 

 common in bulldogs, hounds, and the less domesticated 

 varieties, the paralytic and tranquil in the house and pet 

 dogs. 



Popular Fallacies. I name these because of the evil re- 

 sults of entertaining them. 1. Mad dogs have no fear 

 of water (hydrophobia). On the contrary, they swim 

 rivers, plunge their noses in vrater or lap their urine with- 

 out hesitation. 2. Appetite is not lost, only depraved, and 

 the stomach after death is found to contain an endless va- 

 riety of improper objects. 3. There is rarely froth at the 

 mouth, though saliva may run from it when the jaw is par- 

 alyzed. 4. The tail is not carried hetiveen tJie legs but is 

 rather held erect during a paroxysm. 



Foxes and ivolves have symptoms like those of the dog, 

 the animals losing their natural shyness or fear, and at- 

 tacking man and beast indiscriminately. Cats attack with 

 claws and teeth, flying at the face and hands, and utter 

 hoarse loud cries as in heat. The horse bites, kicks, neighs, 

 draws his yard, roUs his eyes, jerks his muscles, and dies 

 paralyzed. The mischievous propensity distinguishes 

 from delirium. The ox is restless, excitable, everts the 

 upper lip, grinds his teeth, bellows loudly and as if in 

 terror, scrapes with his fore feet, and butts and kicks aU 

 who approach. There is jerking of the muscles and 

 finally paralysis. Sheep are similarly excited, show sexual 

 appetite, stamp, butt, and bleat hoarsely. They die para- 

 lytic. Sivine are excitable, restless, grunt hoarsely, champ 

 the jaws, bite intruders, tear objects to pieces, gape, 

 yawn, become weak and die para'.ytic. 



Eecoveries are so rare as to be extremely questionable. 



Treatment. This can only be warranted in the lower 

 animals in hope of discovering a curative method for man, 

 and then with extreme precautions and in iron cages. 

 Theoretically, vapor baths, with sulphites and antispas- 

 modics (datura, atropa, chloral-hydrate, etc.,) would 



