RECENT CASES OF RABIES IN LANCASHIRE. 169 
(i A hole having been made in the roof, a pail of water was 
lowered by a rope into the box, when she attacked the pail 
furiously and completely destroyed it. After this she seized 
hold of the rope by the teeth and hung herself backwards, as 
a dog would. Occasionally she bellowed loudly, but in a 
strangely altered tone. A large quantity of saliva also 
streamed from the mouth. 
“ She was at once destroyed, but no post-mortem examina- 
tion was made. 
“ On examining the remaining two heifers they were found 
to be, apparently, in a perfect state of health. But after an 
interval of a week one of them exhibited similar symptoms to 
the first attacked, and was forthwith destroyed. 
“ Another week again elapsed, when the disease developed 
itself in the third heifer. She also was destroyed. 
“ BABIES IN A SHEEP. 
“ On the 2nd of January I visited a pet sheep, the property 
of H. B. Ainsworth, Esq., of Moss Bank, near Bolton, which 
was said to be rabid. I was given to understand that a week 
before a small terrier was seen playfully running after it, but 
it was not supposed to have been bitten. A week after this 
incident the animal exhibited symptoms of rabies, and, when 
I saw it, it was in a state of extreme prostration from the 
violent and furious assaults it had made on everybody and 
everything about it. The head was much bruised by con- 
stantly butting at the walls, &c., of the loose box. The 
animal also frequently bleated in an unnatural manner. No 
extraordinary secretion of saliva was observed. 
“ A retriever dog was made the subject of a very savage 
attack, knocked down and jumped upon, and, it was said, was 
also bitten by the sheep. This dog was destroyed the same 
day. 
“ Nothing authentic could be learned respecting the manner 
in which this animal was inoculated. The distance between 
the two localities in which these cases occurred is about four 
miles.” 
