FOUR CASES OF RABIES IN CATTLE. 
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the least movement on our part, or even an attempt at 
conversation, instantly brought on a paroxysm of bellowing 
again. The eyelids were widely dilated, and the eyes 
bright and prominent, giving her an extremely wild startled 
expression ; a quantity of frothy saliva adhered to the lips, 
and with head erect and ears pointed forward she stood 
keenly sensitive to everything around her. 
In her struggle to liberate herself one of her horns had 
become fractured, the blood from which, having streamed 
over her face, increased considerably her wild unnatural 
appearance. There was no disturbance of the pulse, and both 
bowels and kidneys were acting naturally. From the begin- 
ning of her illness she had refused all food; but, unlike the 
former case, she had also displayed a similar indifference for 
fluids. Since the previous day the symptoms had greatly 
increased in intensity, the intervals of quietness being now 
of extremely short duration, and the bellowing could be 
distinctly heard at a distance of two or three miles. 
Treatment, of course, was not adopted; and the owner 
being unwilling to keep her until the disease had run its 
course, she was destroyed a few hours after our visit, and I 
regret to say that in neither of these two cases had I an 
opportunity of making a post-mortem. 
About three weeks after, whilst attending a case of rheu- 
matic fever at the same place, I learnt the following 
additional information concerning her. The owner first 
discovered her to be amiss two days before I was sent for, 
his attention being attracted by her strange appearance and 
conduct in the field. In passing through his stock he 
noticed that she looked remarkably hollow, and instead of 
grazing along with the other cows stood with head erect, 
looking wildly towards various parts of the field, apparently 
watching intently some imaginary object. She would stand 
in this way until her companions had grazed some distance 
from her, when she would walk up amongst them and again 
resume her attitude of suspicious watchfulness. As yet she 
had manifested no desire to do mischief, and throughout the 
disease would permit any of her companions to approach 
her; but on the following day she made a fierce attack on 
some young calves, and became perfectly furious on seeing 
a dog which was kept at the farm for the purpose of driving 
the cattle to and from pasture, and towards which she had 
hitherto never displayed any symptom of animosity. 
On Sunday, December 12th, a fortnight after the death of 
this case, I was summoned to a cow, about six miles away, 
in the township of Coppull, near Chorley. This animal was 
