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FOUR CASES OF RABIES IN CATTLE. 
considerably older than the two former, having had several 
calves, and, as in the preceding cases, was found ailing two 
days before I was sent for, since which time she had been 
entirely off her feed. The principal symptoms I found were 
extreme coldness of the whole body, a small quick feeble 
pulse, drowsiness and great depression of the nervous system, 
and A STRANGE DESIRE TO DEVOUR HER CLOTHING. Although 
food of every description was persistently refused, she had 
deliberately masticated and swallowed a large portion of a 
horse rug and some sacks which had been placed upon 
her. 
Two days afterwards I again saw her, when I found every 
symptom of approaching dissolution. The pulse was almost 
imperceptible, very quick, and extremely irregular; the 
breathing slightly stertorous and slow ; the whole surface of 
the body of an icy coldness; there was a copious flow of 
saliva from the mouth, and the depression was now intense ; 
but though evidently fast sinking, there was still the same 
depraved appetite and unnatural desire to masticate her 
clothing. 
This was the last time I saw her alive, as she died a few 
hours after my visit, but I was afforded an opportunity of 
making a post-mortem the following day. The carcase 
during the night had been dressed for food by a neigh- 
bouring butcher, and being seized by the police I was called 
upon by them to make a post-mortem for the purpose of 
giving evidence. This I did in conjunction with Mr. 
Hutchinson, M.R.C.V.S., of Leyland; but the whole of the 
abdominal viscera having been destroyed, our examination 
was necessarily imperfect. In the organs left for our inspec- 
tion the only abnormal appearances to be found were met 
with in the trachea and pharynx. In the former the mucous 
membrane presented numerous eechymose spots throughout ; 
the pharynx we found in a highly congested state, the congestion 
extending around the posterior nares and up the Eustachian 
tubes. The brain was perfectly healthy, being firm in 
texture and quite free from congestion ; its membranes also 
were normal. 
During the life of the animal I had not been able, from the 
peculiarity of the symptoms, to form any satisfactory diagno- 
sis as to the true nature of the disease, but I was now fur- 
nished with information which had hitherto been suppressed 
— why I know not — which, in conjunction with the post- 
mortem appearances, convinced me beyond doubt that it was 
a true case of rabies. On the morning of the 8th of Novem- 
ber — just five weeks before her death — whilst being driven 
