THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. X, No. 109.] JANUARY 1837. [New Series, No. 49. 
RABIES IN A PONY. 
By Mr. Moneyment, of Norwich. 
HAVING at various times received both amusement and 
information from perusing your valuable Journal, and being one 
of those who wish to act on the quid pro quo principle, I am 
induced to contribute my mite for the amusement and informa- 
tion of others whose experience may not have allowed them to 
witness a case like the one I am about to describe ; such cases 
being, fortunately, of rare occurrence. 
On Thursday the 10th of October, about ten o’clock in the 
morning, I was requested to look at a two years’ old colt, of a 
pony description, belonging to a baker in this city. Before I 
saw it, I asked him if he knew what was the matter with it ? 
He said it was taken ill yesterday, in the afternoon, when it first 
attracted attention by refusing its food, throwing itself down 
and rising up again. From such a description I concluded it 
was colic ; but as soon as I came out of the stable, where I had 
been engaged with another patient, into the yard, and saw the 
pony, and observed his wild and anxious countenance and his 
excessive nervous irritability, I was convinced that something 
uncommon was amiss. 
When I approached him, he instantly endeavoured to bite me, 
the baker hastily calling out, “ Take care he don’t bite you, sir ; 
for he bit me in the arm yesterday.” As a proof that my employer 
in this instance was not much acquainted with horses or horse- 
flesh, or the respectability and gentlemanly conduct of some of 
those who are in the habit of dealing in that* commodity, when 
I asked him how long he had owned the pony in question, he 
said, “ I bought him about ten months since, on the Hill (Nor- 
wich Market), of a man who warranted him four years old ; but 
he turned out to be little more than one ; for when I came to 
observe his mouth, I saw he had not shed a single tooth.” I 
then asked him if the pony had ever been bitten by a dog? 
He said, “ Yes:” I inquired under what circumstances* He then 
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