RABIES IN THE DOG. 
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This flavour, however, is even more apparent in the entire 
plant both of flax and clover dodder, which doubtless accounts 
for the fact that sheep and cattle uniformly refuse it in its 
growing state. 
While, therefore, dodder kills the clover, upon the juices 
of which it lives, and converts as it were what was before 
nutritious into a nauseous medicinal plant, it affords no com- 
pensation for the evil. A plant, then, so mischievous and 
so unsightly as this is in the clover may well merit the name 
given it by the Gloucestershire peasant, of “ devil’s- guts,” 
which, though not elegant, is highly expressive of the 
detestation in which it is held. 
RABIES IN THE DOG— A PROBABLE OUTBREAK 
IN A KENNEL OP HOUNDS. 
By P. Earl, M.R.C.Y.S., Shifnal. 
Of late rabies has attracted a considerable amount of 
attention, and in some of the northern counties in particular, 
in consequence of its great prevalence, and the serious results 
which have followed its appearance. It is this fact which 
has induced me to send you an account of what I fear is 
an outbreak of so-called dumb madness among some hounds 
in my district. 
The disease shows itself in two forms ; in one the hound 
will be quite conscious, will answer to its name, and fawn 
upon those it is accustomed to, but will be very quarrelsome 
and continually fighting with other hounds. This was the 
case with the first hound (a young one, just in from walk), 
which was attacked in the kennel. The animal got worse 
and worse, and unfortunately bit one or two of the attend- 
ants during its illness, and had to be destroyed on the third 
or fourth day after it was attacked. A fortnight after this 
case another hound was attacked, but the symptoms varied 
greatly from the other. In this case a total paralysis of the 
muscles of the lower jaw existed, and the mouth was so open 
as to allow of one seeing a considerable distance down the 
animal’s throat. The fauces and surrounding parts were 
noticed to be highly congested. This hound died in five 
days, but appeared to be quite sensible and harmless up to 
the last, even allowing the huntsman to pat and caress it. 
A post-mortem examination was made of the first hound 
which died, and an opinion given that the animal had sunk 
