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VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. X, No. 117*] SEPTEMBER 1837. [New Series, No. 57. 
ANIMAL PATHOLOGY. 
By Mr. You att. 
LECTURE XIV. 
Rabies in the Dog. — Symptoms continued. 
AT the close of the last lecture I was describing the strange 
depravation of appetite in the rabid dog, and extending to fluids 
as well as to solids — the eagerness with which he would lap his 
urine and devour his excrement, and I mentioned these, and 
again refer to them, as symptoms that will never deceive you. 
The salivary Discharge . — A great deal has been said of 
the profuse discharge of saliva from the mouth of the rabid 
dog. It may be readily imagined that some change will take 
place in the quantity as well as the quality of the salivary dis- 
charge. All the glands concerned in the secretion of saliva are 
increased in bulk and vascularity, and the sublingual glands 
wear an evident character of inflammation. The salivary dis- 
charge is increased in the early stage of the disease, but not so as 
to be recognized as a symptom of rabies — not so as to be, in a great 
number of cases, at all noticeable. It accompanies the early stage 
of the disease. It never equals the increased discharge that ac- 
companies epilepsy or nausea. The frothy spume at the corners of 
the mouth is not for a moment to be compared with that which 
is evident enough in both of these affections, and it is a symp- 
tom of short duration — it rarely or never lasts more than twelve 
hours. The stories which are told of the mad dog running 
along with his mouth covered with foam are altogether fabulous ; 
the dog recovering from or attacked by a fit may be seen in 
this state, but not the rabid dog. Fits are often mistaken for 
rabies, and hence the delusion. 
The viscid Saliva. — The increased secretion of saliva soon 
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