11ABIES IN THE DOG— SYMPTOMS. 327 
After a pause, and due examination, “ Rabid. I have rarely 
seen a clearer case.” My antagonist has gone to his long home. 
Let the memory of his occasional rudeness and of other errors 
die with him. One thing, however, I must say. He was a 
medical examiner of veterinary pupils. This anecdote will tell 
how far he was qualified to sit at a board, whence the men who 
had the best right to appear there — veterinary practitioners — 
were excluded. Some of the present occupants of that board l 
know, and I sincerely respect them. They are honours to their 
own profession, and they have been kind to me ; but if any one 
of them will kindly favour me with a call, I will undertake 
to extort from him, but in perfect good humour, the confession 
that he is perfectly ignorant of the subject on which I would ex- 
amine him; that he would to a certainty be turned back if he 
was a veterinary pupil ; and that he is therefore utterly unfit to 
become a veterinary examiner. 
Well, gentlemen; to return from this long story, and this 
usurpation of undoubted rights, I owe to the medical profession 
a great deal too much to permit me designedly to offend ; but 
I owe likewise too much to my own class, and to my own pro- 
fession, to withhold one particle of the truth, or what I suppose 
to be the truth, however contrary it may be to the opinion of 
some of my hearers. 
Symptoms of Rabies . — In describing the nature and cause 
and treatment of this fearful disease, I will first take that animal 
in which it oftenest appears, and by which it is most frequently 
propagated, the dog. In some continental states the wolf is 
the rival of the dog in the work of mischief ; and one of the 
French medical journals states, that, between them both, at least 
1500 persons die in Europe hydrophobous every year. The 
symptoms of rabies in the dog ! for it is only within a limited 
period after the infliction of the bite, and probably while the dog 
is alive, that we have any chance of combatting the evil. I 
shall have occasion to speak of and to recommend certain medi- 
caments in certain cases; and I confess that I have the hope, the 
belief, that at some, possibly not distant time, the medicine or 
the compound will be discovered to which even this malady will 
yield ; but in the present day, in the present state of medical 
science, our hope consists in the destruction of the bitten part, 
and that I need not tell you cannot be effected too soon : the 
time of hope may have fled ere the animal that inflicted the 
wound has ceased to live. 
Early Symptoms. — What, then, are the earliest symptoms ? 
What a fearful subject have I to treat upon at the very be- 
ginning of my inquiry! When does danger commence? At 
