252 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
The voice at this time becomes strangely altered. It is 
hardly possible to describe it, though when once heard, it 
can never be forgotten. It isa kind of blending between 
a bark and a howl, having a croupy sound, and most 
frequently is heard at night. 
A thoroughly savage and morose disposition becomes at 
this period firmly established. Any article presented will 
be seized and ferociously mangled. The poor creature, in 
its paroxysms is regardless of pain ; the lips are wounded, 
and even the teeth broken, in its frantic efforts to avenge 
some imagined injury or offence.* 
jaws, the lower one again dropped half aninch. External manipulation 
about the throat produced no indications of pain or irritability. I 
then—not suspecting anything serious or unusual from the information 
I had received, proceeded, with the aid of a candle-light,to examine 
the posterior part of the mouth. This was discovered to be inflamed, 
but no bone could be detected. I then passed my two fore-fingers 
down, with the sameresult. Thinking it possible the bone had passed 
on, and probably left some laceration behind, with paralysis from its 
long retention in a fixed position, 1 ordered a het linseed-meal or . 
mustard-poultice to the throat, and a little warm beef-tea or broth to 
be given, promising to call the following day. This I was prevented 
from doing, and an assistant was sent instead. I, however, omitted to 
tell him the nature of the case, but he came back with the idea 
probably from being also told the same tale, viz: that the dog had 
“swallowed a bone.” The following day I again visited the patient, 
when, upon opening the door of the room, the animal, without barking 
made arushat me. Pulling the door to quickly, I waited a minute or 
so, and then cautiously looked in. He was crouching in a corner with 
his eyes half-closed, and his head nodding in a drowsy manner. He 
gave a start, or, as it were, awoke suddenly, changed his position, and 
fell off again in the same drowsy state; the lower jaw still remained 
dropped. I immediately became impressed with the belief that it was 
a case of dumbrabies, but, to make the matter more certain, I ordered 
the animal to be placed in security, and carefully watched. Next 
morning, unmistakeable symptoms of rabies manifested themselves, 
and the dog was shot. Another animal, a companion, sickened in like 
manner, and was also destroyed. Fortunately, I had no abrasions on 
my hands, or I might have shared a similar fate. 
I mention this case as illustrative of the great care and suspicion 
with which such cases and their history should be received 
* Tuese fits of fury are not always attendant on rabies, if the animal 
