11ABIES IX THE DOG.— SYMPTOMS. 
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often the coachman shares their fate. I am sure that I speak 
within compass when I say that I have known at least twenty 
horses destroyed in this way. You should be perfectly aware of 
this, in order to interpose while there is a chance, a possibility of 
success, and by the application of proper means, snatch the 
more valuable of the two from the fate which otherwise probably 
awaits him. 
Depravation of Appetite . — Likewise attendant on the early 
stage of rabies in the dog is a loss or depravation of appetite. He 
usually refuses his common food — I recollect but one exception to 
this, and that was in the dog belonging to the beautiful lady. 
His appetite became enormous — I never saw any thing like it. 
It seemed impossible that so small an animal could devour so 
great a quantity of food. When he had eaten thrice or quadruple 
his usual quantity of meat, he would eagerly search the carpet 
and floor for every little crumb. His thirst was correspondingly 
insatiable. There is nothing surprising in this. It is only ano- 
ther circumstance by which the peculiar irritability of the sto- 
mach in this disease is shewn. 
Generally, however, the dog refuses his usual food. He fre- 
quently turns from it with an evident expression of disgust. At 
other times, he seizes it with greater or less avidity, and then 
drops it; sometimes from disgust, but oftener because he is un- 
able to complete the mastication of it. That paralysis of the 
organs of mastication of which I shall have much to say by and 
by has commenced, and this dropping of the food after it has 
been partly chewed is a symptom on which implicit confidence 
may be placed. 
There is another circumstance to which he may or may not 
have been previously accustomed. The food which he will not 
or cannot eat, he carefully hides. There is often much method 
about this — it is the result of some reasoning process. A Da- 
nish dog belonging to Lord Mount Edgcumbe was rabid. He 
was a thoroughly quiet fellow, and I could do as I pleased with 
him. He would take the food which I offered him, and attempt 
to chew and to swallow it, but it would drop from his mouth. 
He would stand over it, steadfastly regarding it, and would then 
take it up and carefully hide it. He seemed to say, “ I cannot 
manage this now, but I will try again by and by.” 
Some dogs vomit once or twice in the early period of disease. 
When this happens they never return to the natural food of the 
dog, but are eager for every thing that is beastly and horrible. 
The stomach is very early and very powerfully affected in this 
disease. 
In tetanus, and in some cases of paralysis and chorea, the dog has 
