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of' the fancied path of some imaginary object. I was then truly 
alarmed; for I had discovered that, in the giving of the physic 
in the morning, the man’s hand had been scratched, a youth 
had suffered him to lick a sore finger, and he had been observed 
to lick the sore ear of an infant. He was a remarkably affec- 
tionate dog, and was accustomed to this abominable and inex- 
cusable nonsense. I insisted on detaining the dog, and gave the 
man a letter to his surgeon, telling him all my fears. He 
promptly acted on the hint ; and before evening the proper 
means were taken with regard to them. 
I watched this dog day after day. He would not eat, but he 
drank water, and somewhat more than I liked. The surgeon 
came every day to see him, and, although he behaved civilly, I 
could plainly see that he thought I had made a great blunder. 
I was not quite easy, although I could not doubt the evidence of 
the wandering eye, seen indeed only once, and that of the 
spume upon the water, although it was but little. My medical 
friend became very cool about the matter, until, on the 26th, 
the sixth day after his arrival, we both of us heard the rabid 
howl burst from him. He did not however die until the 30th, 
and then undeniably rabid. I mention this as another instance 
of the great difficulty there often is to determine the real nature 
of the case in the early stage of the disease ; — a lesson of caution, 
and of decision too. 
Early Symptoms resumed . — The earliest symptoms are ex- 
ceedingly obscure. Sullenness — fidgettiness — continued shift- 
ing of posture. Where I have had opportunity, I have generally 
found these three symptoms in regular succession. The dog has 
for some hours retreated to his basket or his bed ; there has 
been no disposition to bite, but he answers the call laggardly, or 
not at all ; he is curled up, and his face is buried between his 
paws and his breast. He then begins to be fidgetty ; he searches 
out new resting-places, but they do not long suit him ; he tries 
one, and another and another, but he is dissatisfied ; at length 
he takes again to his own bed, but he is continually shifting 
his posture. He begins to gaze about him as he lies in his bed : 
strange thoughts rise in his mind ; his countenance is clouded, 
suspicious ; he comes to one and another of the family, and he 
fixes on them a steadfast gaze as if he would read their very 
thoughts : — c< I feel strangely ill. Some horrible presages pass 
in my mind. Have you any thing to do with it? or you? or 
you?” Has not a dog mind enough for this? If you have ever 
seen a rabid dog at the commencement of the disease, you have 
seen this to the very life. 
In June 1830, I was desired to examine a Newfoundland dog 
