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dislocation of maxilla, stomato pharyogitis, cutaneous hypersesthesia, 

 pharyngeal anthrax, epilepsy, pentastoma, cysticercns, 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, hypereesthesia, easily 

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

 stranger, attacks with teeth and heels, mischievous, pawiflg, 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 : hypersesthesia, 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 hypeiaesthesia 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, ruffling 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 madness ; Rabidus Canis ; I^yssa ; Lytta ; 

 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. 



Animals susceptible. While the disease is seen most frequently 

 in the canine races (dogs, wolves, foxes and jackals), and in the 

 cat family (cat, lion), it is liable to spread widely among animals 

 that use the teeth as weapons of offense, and such as they can 

 readily attack. When inoculated, all warmblooded a:nimals con- 

 tract the disease. Thus the carnivora and omnivora (dog, wolf, 



