RABIES IN THE DOG.— SYMPTOMS. 
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positive as ever that there was nothing like madness ; and he so 
far shook her partial faith in me, that a messenger was sent with 
a note written by herself, in which I was required to return the 
dogs. I replied that so satisfied was I of the correctness of the 
opinion I had given, and of the danger to her ladyship and those 
about her which would attend their return, that I trusted she 
would forgive me if I declined to send them back, at least for a 
few days. The servant refused to go without the dogs, and 
talked about policemen. I told him, that, if he did not go about 
his business, a policeman should dispose of him. 
In the evening the messenger returned with another note, in 
which I was told that two lumber rooms at the top of the house 
had been emptied; that staples had been driven into the wall at 
the farther end of each ; that a padlock was affixed to each door, 
the keys of which should be in the keeping of the servant that 
had been bitten, and that, although her ladyship might visit the 
dogs at the door, she would not enter either room until the reco- 
very or death of the suspected dog. Her son, doubtless, had ef- 
fected all this. The dogs were returned. On the second day af- 
terwards the terrier died. I examined him in the presence of a 
surgeon attached to one of the hospitals, and we were both con- 
vinced that he was rabid. 
Restlessness . — A very early symptom of rabies will be an extreme 
degree of restlessness. Frequently the dog is incessantly wander- 
ing about, shifting from corner to corner of the room, or, if he con- 
fines himself pretty much to his usual resting-place, he is continu- 
ally rising up and lying down, and shifting his posture in every 
possible way ; disposing of his bed with his paws ; shaking it with 
his mouth ; bringing it altogether in a heap on which he carefully 
lays his chest, or, rather, the pit of his stomach, and then, all at 
once, bundling every portion of it out of his kennel. When he 
is lying in his mistress’s lap, she all the while unconscious of her 
danger, he is incessantly shifting about. If, the owner being 
somewhat alarmed, he is put into a closed basket, he will not be 
still an instant, but turn round and round without ceasing, 
scraping the straw under him. If he is at liberty, he will seem 
to imagine that something is lost, and he will eagerly search 
round the room, and particularly every corner of it, with a strange 
violence and indecision in every motion. 
This restlessness and fidgettiness strongly remind us of cor- 
responding symptoms in the human being. The longitudinal 
pillow which is so anxiously formed, and on which the lower 
part of the chest is laid, corresponds with the strange uneasiness 
about the scrobiculus cordis, of which the human patient com- 
