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head was tossed up instead of being drawn down— the lips a lit- 
tle distorted — the tongue and the lips very black. He is evident- 
ly getting weaker. After two or three attempts to escape he sits 
down for a second, and then gets up and plunges to the end of 
his chain. He drinks frequently, yet but little at a time, and 
that without difficulty or spasm. The medicine has operated 
twice. The faeces dark brown, and very foetid. 
12 p.m. — The thirst strangely increased. A pan containing a 
full quart has been three times emptied and replenished. When 
he drinks there is a peculiar eagerness in his manner. He 
plunges his nose to the very bottom of the pan, and then snaps at 
the bubbles which he raises. No spasm follows the drinking. 
He took two or three pieces of meat from my hand, and immedi- 
ately dropped them from want of power to hold them, yet he was 
able for a moment suddenly to close his jaws. When not drink- 
ing, he was barking with a hoarse sounds Every now and then 
starting suddenly, and watching and catching at some imaginary 
object. 
24M, 1 a.m. — More furious, yet weaker. Thirst insatiable — 
otherwise diligently employed in shaking and tearing every thing 
within his reach. He died about three o’clock. 
No penny-piece was to be found, but every character of rabies. 
Are the symptoms of rabies in the dog the same in every 
country ? I have sometimes thought that they could not be, and 
especially when I read in Richerand, Trolliet, Jourdan, Hurtrel 
d’Arboval, and even Professor Vatel, in his last and admirable 
work, in fact, in every French writer of any note, except the ac- 
curate Rigot, that the dread of water is a characteristic of rabies 
in the dog ; and that, although there is at times insatiable thirst, 
there is a shuddering at the attempt to swallow, and a shudder- 
ing likewise at the sight of polished bodies. — I was once going 
through a veterinary hospital in France, and among other things 
I was shewn a dog supposed to be rabid. I looked very atten- 
tively at him — -there were none of the symptoms by which I had 
been accustomed to be guided : the more I looked at him the 
more I liked the appearance of the poor fellow, and, at length, 
to the great annoyance and fright of others, I very coolly opened 
the door of the cage in which he was confined, and dragged him 
out. If the dog had understood all that passed, he could not 
have thanked me more kindly than he did for this interference on 
his behalf. What became of him afterwards I know not; but 
I then thought, and think now, that it was one of those decep- 
tive cases of distemper that have occasionally puzzled, for a little 
while , far better men than myself. 
Notwithstanding, however, the fearful list of authorities that I 
