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once into paralysis after the premonitory symptoms. In these 

 cases the early nervous symptoms tend to prostration, weakness: 

 and dulness or even stupor, there is no disposition to escape, but 

 rather to seek seclusion and quiet, there is rarely howling and 

 then only at first, and soon the're is paralysis of the masseters 

 and dropping of the lower jaw, and there is neither ability nor 

 desire to bite. From this the paralysis extends to the hind limbs, 

 and then to the fore limbs and trunk. In other cases one limb 

 is the first to suffer, followed by the face, limbs and body. The 

 most prominent feature is the widely opened mouth, the flaccid, 

 hanging tongue and drivelling saliva. The buccal mucosa, at 

 first red and moist, becomes bluish, dry and powdery. The eyes- 

 are dull, mournful, suffering or altogether without expression 

 and the pupils are usually widely dilated. The hind limbs are 

 usually utterly helpless and often the fore ones as well, the pros- 

 tration is extreme and the patient lies quiet and helpless until re- 

 leased by death in two or three days. 



'A third form, known as the lethargic, is a modification of the 

 paralytic. There may be neither delirium nor marked paralysis, 

 there is no drooping maxilla, pendant tongue nor stringy, hanging 

 saliva, but only a profound, nervous prostration and complete 

 apathy. The patient curls himself up in some dark, quiet corner 

 and cannot be roused by coaxing or punishment, by hunger or 

 thirst. In this, as in the dumb rabies, the common test of pre- 

 senting another dog fails to rouse excitement or paroxysm. If 

 left undisturbed, these patients may live to the tenth or fifteenth 

 day. 



Beside the typical forms there are all intermediate grades, in- 

 clining more or less toward the furious, or the paralytic or lethar- 

 gic. Galtier mentions cases that showed aphasia, scarcely any 

 disposition to bite, swaying movements of the body and limbs, 

 muscular incoordination, tucked up, tender abdomen, rolling the 

 body like a barrel, and marked dyspnoea. Others show at first a 

 slight disposition to bite which is quickly checked by a very early 

 paralysis of the masseters. In still others the attempts to bite 

 are yet seen after dropping of the jaw, but though moved^ 

 it cannot be completely closed. 



In exceptional cases rabid dogs have shown intermissions of 

 apparent soundness extending over eight days (Youatt), two- 



