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FOUR CASES OF RABIES IN CATTLE. 
was in a similar state, and on cutting through it the grey 
substance presented a dark asliy-red appearance, and was 
considerably softer in texture, especially in the anterior lobes 
around the olfactory bulbs. The congestion extended no 
farther than the grey matter, the choroid plexus, velum in - 
terpositum, & c., being apparently perfectly healthy. 
On inquiring if the calf was known to have been bitten by 
any strange dog, I was informed that, shortly before day- 
break on the 8th of November, the shepherd, on going his 
morning rounds, had observed a large black dog, which he 
described as looking “fearfully hollow and hungry,” in a 
field adjoining the hall, which, after making an attack on his 
own dog, crossed the fence into a contiguous field in which 
the calves were grazing, and ran in amongst them. It was 
not sufficiently light at the time to observe whether it 
attacked any of them or not, but he thought it probable it 
might have done so, as he could distinctly see all the calves 
running from it in a state of alarm. I was also informed 
that between five and six o'clock the same morning it had 
severely bitten a sheep dog at a farm about a mile further, 
which the owner — being apprehensive of hydrophobia — had 
subsequently kept tied up, and which, two or three weeks 
after the injury, had died, presenting undeniable symptoms 
of rabies. 
I subsequently ascertained that it was the same dog which 
had attacked the cow at Coppall. It made its appearance at 
this place about two hours after leaving Warbold Hall, trot- 
ting along the road with a cat in its mouth, which it had 
picked up and carried from a cottage it had just passed, and 
which it dropped half killed on the road when it made its 
attack on the cow. Several dogs, a pig, and other animals, 
were afterwards attacked by it in various parts of the country 
(but the whole of the bitten ones, as far as I could ascertain, 
were immediately destroyed), and it was ultimately killed, 
three days after, by a labourer who was fencing, upon whom 
it made a fierce and unprovoked attack, but the man fortu- 
nately being armed with a hedging hook, he was enabled 
quickly to despatch it. 
I could never ascertain that either of the two cases I have 
first mentioned had ever been bitten ; but I think it is highly 
probable that the dog, whilst in the neighbourhood, might have 
crossed the farms and inflicted fatal bites on both animals. 
It is worthy of note that nearly all the cases, although 
occurring at intervals of one and two weeks after each other, 
commenced almost exactly at the same period of the week, 
and nearly all had the same duration. 
