608 FURTHER REPORT OF CASES OF RABIES IN LANCASHIRE. 
The symptoms in no way differed from those usually seen 
in rabid sheep. Throughout the disease the animal evinced 
great restlessness by frequently stamping and scraping the 
ground with the fore feet, and riding on its companions’ 
backs, and with eyes glaring wildly it would back several 
paces, and then butt furiously at any one who approached 
it ; even a stone thrown towards it on the ground was suffi- 
cient to bring on a paroxysm of fury. 
Three days after the appearance of the symptoms the ewe 
was destroyed, and I being in attendance at the time on 
another patient at the Hall, had an opportunity of making 
an examination of the head, which alone had been reserved 
for my inspection by the shepherd. The brain and its 
membranes were greatly congested, the pharynx and nasal 
cavities also in a less degree ; beyond this nothing abnormal 
was disclosed. 
The second case occurred in the human subject, and is of very 
recent date ; the patient in this instance was a female tramp* 
who had been bitten very severely on the left arm by a dog in 
Salford five weeks prior to the appearance of the disease. She 
was found on the road in a supposed fit, about two miles from 
here, on the 25 th of June, and was brought to the Wigan 
workhouse, where she was placed under the care of Dr. M. F. 
Reilly, Medical Officer to the Wigan Union, and where, 
through the courtesy of that gentleman, I had an oppor- 
tunity of seeing her along with a medical friend. At the 
time of our visit she had been upwards of a week in the in- 
firmary, and was in a feeble exhausted condition ; but although 
the symptoms had become greatly mitigated, the character- 
istics of hydrophobia were still well marked, and closely 
resembled those which were present in the case of a boy 
whom I saw many years ago, and who died a month after 
being bitten, on the third day of the disease. 
Occasionally, the woman’s countenance would assume a more 
than usually anxious expression, and when sitting up in bed the 
patient would fix her eyes intently on some particular part of 
the room and gaze with intense earnestness for some minutes. 
There was frequent and deep sighing followed by convulsive 
startings and twitchings of the limbs, particularly in the in- 
jured one, and at times she would snap involuntarily in a 
quick spasmodic manner with her teeth, and then bury her 
face in the bed-clothes. Some days previous to our visit 
there had been total inability to swallow, but she now occa- 
sionally asked for water, a little of which she could drink 
with difficulty. She died on the 13th day after her admis- 
* Named Mary Race. 
