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ANIMAL PATHOLOGY. 
Ellis, in his ** Shepherd’s sure Guide,” asserts that a mad dog 
will never cry it‘ you beat him. This I believe to be strictly 
true. I have now and then cowed him, and he has slunk away 
from me ; but I never could extract a cry from him. I certainly 
have never tried this to the extent of which Ellis speaks, and 
I a little doubt the truth of his story. He says that “ at the 
kennel at Gaddesden,” now the Duke of Bridgwater’s, lt they 
heated a poker red-hot, and, holding it near the mad hound’s 
mouth, he greedily seized it, and held it until it made his flesh 
flare, yet he never let go his hold, nor cried.” 
The partial Paralysis . — In the great majority of cases of 
furious madness, and in almost every case of dumb madness, 
there is evident affection of the lumbar portion of the spinal 
cord. There is a staggering gait, not indicative of general 
weakness, but referrible to the hind quarters alone, and indicating 
an affection of the lumbar motor nerves. Now and then it 
approaches more to a general paralytic affection. 
I have a case in point, dated March 1820: — Mr. Dottin’s 
dog had been bitten in the ear. On the two preceding days, 
he had been scratching it continually, and rubbing it furiously 
on the ground. The situation of the bite accounts for a portion 
of what follows. 
30/^. — He holds the head considerably on one side, and the 
bitten side is downwards ; the axis of the eye on that side is also 
distorted, and. not only the eyelids, but the eye itself, is occasion- 
ally spasmed. The dog snatches at his food instead of taking 
it in the usual manner, and sometimes misses his aim. The 
power of voluntary motion generally seems to be diminished — 
the dog is wandering and staggering about, and slight spasms 
are prevailing over the whole of the frame. It is always a very 
suspicious circumstance when a dog is seen staggering along 
the street; and many a time it has been the first thing that 
attracted my attention, and afterwards led probably to the pre- 
vention of some mischief by the timely discovery that the dog 
was rabid. 
Occasionally the disease has assumed a more violent or even 
tetanic form. June 25th, 1825 : — This dog had been bitten by 
a rabid dog on which I had attended on the 22d of the preceding 
month. For the last two or three days he has been more than 
usually cross, and has refused its food. Yesterday he began to 
stagger, and occasionally to whine and cry. To-day, when I 
saw him for the first time, the head was drawn towards the left 
side — he was bitten in the left shoulder — so as to give an appear- 
ance of considerable swelling on the right side of the neck 
— he is very irritable — the eyes are somewhat staring and 
