Rabies 371 
stomach often containing sticks and other foreign 
bodies swallowed by the dog during the progress of the 
disease. In order to diagnose suspected cases of rabies, 
inoculation of rabbits can be made, or the brain of the 
supposed rabid animal should be examined by an expert 
microscopically for the presence of “negri bodies” in 
the brain cells. 
The symptoms of rabies in eattle are delirium, in 
which the diseased animal attacks other, and particu- 
larly smaller animals and persons; trembling of the 
muscles, and difficulty in walking, due to a knuckling of 
the fetlocks. In most cases the animal keeps up a 
hoarse bellowing, and there is violent straining as if to 
pass excrement. 
Horses, when attacked by rabies, become excited and 
furious, attacking other animals or inanimate objects, 
sometimes breaking their teeth in their fury. 
After an animal has contracted the disease it should 
be put out of its misery, as there is no hope of recovery 
from rabies. When a person or animal is bitten by 
an animal supposed to be rabid, the wound should be 
cauterized with nitrate of silver or other strong caustic, 
and antiseptics freely used. Dogs are to be securely 
confined, to prevent the possibility of their injuring 
any one. They are likely to disappear should the dis- 
ease develop. Persons bitten by rabid animals should 
have the Pasteur treatment. 
When an outbreak of rabies occurs among cattle, the 
drinking place should be disinfected, and the healthy 
animals kept from the rabid to prevent the possibility 
of infection. 
