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patient disregards caution in its destructive delirium. If a 

 stick be presented, the horse snaps at it or seizes it with his 

 teeth. A water pail may be seized and smashed. In some 

 cases slight dysphagia is an early symptom, saliva drooling 

 from the mouth; in drinking, regurgitation of water through 

 the nose follows. In occasional patients marked symptoms of 

 fury are noted, the animal rearing wildly into the manger, and 

 with mouth and hoof seemingly trying to tear the stable down. 

 Blankets, feed boxes, studding, in fact anything which may 

 come in the way are torn or splintered. Other horses or even 

 men are attacked during the paroxysm. In stallions and 

 mares increased sexual desire is noted. The appetite is per- 

 verted, the horse ingesting dung and urine. A change of 

 voice also occurs in horses, but is not as marked a symptom as 

 in dogs and cattle. About the second or third day paralytic 

 symptoms appear, the patient remains down, and dies in 

 convulsions or coma. In some cases the paralytic symptoms 

 are not preceded by a stage of fury, the course of the disease 

 resembling the dumb form of rabies of dogs. 



Ox. — Rabid cattle are restless, excited, and particularly 

 aggressive toward dogs and fowls, which animals they pursue 

 with avidity. Even inanimate objects, if in motion (a rolling 

 pumpkin), are' chased by them dog fashion. In milch cows 

 milk secretion stops. Not infrequently they attempt to bite, 

 seizing the coat sleeve of a person standing near. The patients 

 have an anxious, mischievious expression, and quite fre- 

 quently a peculiar movement of the muzzle, like that observed 

 in the healthy rabbit. Sometimes violent contractions of the 

 abdominal muscles, as if to defecate, are seen. Anything 

 which attracts their attention they rapidly approach and try 

 to gore and climb upon with their forefeet. A common 

 symptom is a sudden loss of muscular coordination or power 

 which causes the animal to drop to the earth as if "pulled 

 down" by a rifle shot. They remain down but a moment and 

 spring to their feet again. The appetite is vitiated, dung and 

 feces "being licked up in preference to good food. Water is 

 not refused, but it may be swallowed with difficulty. Con- 

 tinued bellowing is a prominent symptom, the sound of the 

 voice becoming gradually hoarser and fainter. The patients 

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