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plains. It speaks of disease about the diaphragm and the abdo- 
minal muscles, sympathizing with or accompanying the affection 
of the fauces. 
Pain in the bitten part . — In a very considerable proportion of 
the cases of hydrophobia in the human being, there is, as a pre- 
cursor symptom, uneasiness, pain, or itching of the bitten part ; and 
a red line may be traced up the limb in the direction of the nerve. 
Before that, the wound, although healed, is irritable ; it responds to 
every atmospheric change ; there is that lurking in it or about it 
which suffers not the neighbouring tissues to be at rest. By and 
by, the wound swells — it become red or livid, and always pain- 
ful ; and pains also shoot along in the direction of the nerve. In 
a few cases the wound opens afresh. The poison is now begin- 
ning fatally to act on the tissue on which it has lain harmless ; 
inflammation is set up there, and the constitution is beginning to be 
fatally affected. Sometimes this is the effect of imagination. When 
the conversation has turned on this subject, after and long after 
the bitten part has been excised, pain has darted along the limb. 
1 have been bitten much oftener than I liked by dogs decidedly 
rabid, and, proper means being taken, I have hitherto escaped; 
but, many a time and oft, when I have been over-fatigued, or a 
little, or not a little, if the truth were told, out of temper, some of 
these old sores itch and throb, and actually become red and 
swollen. 
Pain in the wounded part, expressed by anxiously licking or 
biting it, is a frequent precursor symptom of rabies in the dog. I 
have seen him eagerly licking a little red spot in the leg, during 
several minutes, and whining and crying during the whole of the 
time ; and, the intellect too early and too decidedly sharing in 
the constitutional disturbance, I have seen him seize one of his 
feet, and savagely growl over it, and bite it, and tear it, until the 
blood flowed plentifully. 
The dog often suffers a great deal of pain in the ear in common 
canker. He will almost unceasingly scratch it, crying piteously 
while thus employed. The ear is oftener than any other part 
bitten by the rabid dog. It is most easily laid hold of. When 
a wound in the ear, inflicted by a rabid dog, begins to become 
painful, the agony appears to be of the intensest kind. The ani- 
mal becomes perfectly outrageous ; he rubs it against any pro- 
jecting body — he scratches it might and main, and tumbles over 
and over while thus employed. The young practitioner should 
be on his guard here. In the course of my practice I have had at 
least a dozen dogs brought to me with supposed dreadful canker 
in the ear, and at first I own that I was more than once deceived. 
