RABIES IN THE DOG— SYMPTOMS. 
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anxious, supplicating gaze upon me : I was not quite a brute, 
and I disturbed him no more. 
He frequently approached the water, gazed wistfully upon it, 
and retreated and returned to it again. 
He now grew rapidly weak, and before the eve of the next day 
was unable to get up ; still he knew me, and faintly wagged his 
tail, and after many an effort gave me his paw. As he lay, he 
frequently looked at the water, and I put it close to him ; but 
although he gazed at it, he made no attempt to drink. Before 
I left him at night, I put a pan of clean water within his reach. 
More than a pint of it was gone in the morning, but the poor 
fellow was dead. 
A little before that, at the desire and with the kind assist- 
ance of Mr. Csesar Hawkins, the power of the guaco was tested. 
The patient was a large pug. We gave him the medicine with- 
out the slightest difficulty — it was given three or four times ; 
but nothing like spasmodic action occurred. 
I repeat it, that the horrible spasms of the human being at 
the sight of or the attempt to swallow fluids, occur sufficiently 
often to prove the identity of the disease in the biped and the 
quadruped ; but I can say with perfect truth, that not in one 
case in five hundred is there in the dog the slightest repugnance 
to liquids, or difficulty in swallowing them. 
The Alteration of Voice . — In a great many cases, in almost 
all in which he utters any sound during the disease, there is a 
manifest change of voice. In the dog labouring under ferocious 
madness it is perfectly characteristic: there is no earthly sound 
which it resembles, and when you have fair opportunity I would 
urge you anxiously to study it. 
The dog is generally standing, sometimes sitting, when the 
singular cry is uttered. The muzzle is always elevated : the 
beginning is that of a perfect bark, ending abruptly in a howl, 
a fifth, sixth, or eighth higher. You often hear dogs howling; 
but in this case there is the perfect bark and the perfect howl — 
the howl rapidly succeeding to the bark. It is one bark and 
one howl, and both of them uttered in the same act of expi- 
ration. Whatever character the disease may assume — whether 
the dog is harmless or ferocious, except the muscles of the 
mouth and larynx are paralysed, except dumb madness super- 
venes, the characteristic howl will be heard, and, in its way, will 
be an infallible guide. 
Every sound uttered by the rabid dog is more or less changed. 
The huntsman, who knows the voice of every hound in his pack, 
occasionally hears a strange challenge. He immediately finds 
out that dog, and he puts him under confinement as quickly as 
