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and dazzling appearance ; they are like two balls of fire glaring 
upon you : there is a peculiar transparency of the hyaloid mem- 
brane, or injection of that of the retina. I should not desire a 
better test of the courage of a man than his being able to meet 
the fierce, fiery gaze of a large rabid dog without feeling momen- 
tarily cowed. It is a state of the eye that I have never seen 
except accompanying rabies ; and on this, too, you may place im- 
plicit dependence. 
Dr. Bardeslev speaks of this wild and sparkling appearance 
of the eye in a human patient; and Mr. Turner describes an 
irregular expansion of the pupil in a hydrophobic patient, with 
an extraordinary fierceness of the whole visage. 
Accompanying this is slight strabismus. Do not mistake 
here. I have known the young veterinary surgeon often blunder 
about this, and get into sad scrapes too. It is not that pro- 
trusion of the membrana nictitans over the eye which in distem- 
per occasionally gives an appearance of squinting, but an actual 
distortion of the axis of the eye; and, usually, the twitchings 
which gradually spread over the face, beginning around one eye, 
and contracting it, and giving a vibratory motion to it — curious, 
yet terrible to behold in the dog of large size. 
And now for my friend behind the screen. He was brought 
to me this afternoon. From long experience in this disease I 
pledge myself that he is rabid ; and I think that by to-morrow 
he will be ferociously so. If any of you will favour me with a 
call to-morrow, you shall see him, and judge for yourselves whe- 
ther I am imposed on. He is conscious of being in a strange 
place, and a little cowed by that, and see how managable he is. 
Let us rest a minute. There, what is he gazing at ? — neither 
you nor me — it is the mote which his own disordered imagination 
has conjured up. There, another object has started ; and now 
see how his eyes close and his head droops. I should want 
nothing more than this to convince me that this poor fellow is 
rabid. It is a kind of delirium which I have never seen but as 
connected with rabies. 
I cannot shew you the peculiar brightness of the eye — the dis- 
ease is not sufficiently developed ; but there is the occasional 
spasm of the upper lid of the left eye ; and when it ceases, or 
rather the constriction is confirmed, you see that the aperture is 
evidently smaller on that side than on the other. There is no- 
thing more that I can shew you about him at present. That 
which l most wanted was, to give you a living proof of the ob- 
scurity of the symptoms of rabies in an early stage of the disease, 
and I am glad that I have had the opportunity. I perfectly 
understand some of you. You do not think that I would dare 
