RABIES IN THE DOG. — SYMPTOMS. 
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' The peculiar Struggle in the Mind of the Dog . — In proportion 
as more blood is determined to the brain — in proportion as the ce- 
rebral circulation is disordered, the first feeling of impending evil 
is strengthened, and, with that, the desire to repel or revenge the 
injury; yet the previous habits of obedience and the feeling of 
affection are not at once discarded. A spaniel belonging to Mr. 
Haslep frequently snapped in the morning, seemingly in play, at 
the feet of several persons. In the evening he bit his master, his 
master’s friend, and another dog: the old habits of obedience then 
returned. His master, most strangely, did not suspect the truth, 
and the dog quietly followed him to my house on the following 
day, and was perfectly docile, and eager to be caressed. 
A dog belonging to Mr. Russell was incessantly employed in 
hunting flies during the greater part of a certain day. In the 
evening he seized his mistress’s hand and mumbled it, pretending 
to bite. He then did so with her foot several times. On the fol- 
lowing morning one of the maid-servants could hardly keep him 
from her feet. He took his food eagerly, but dropped it from his 
mouth. In the afternoon he bit the gardener, and then fell on 
the gardener’s cat, and nearly worried her to death. On the fol- 
lowing morning he was employed with strange diligence in tearing 
his bed and kennel to pieces. His eyes were fierce, and he flew 
furiously at a stick with which he was threatened. 
Another dog, bitten by one that was decidedly rabid, in his 
turn exhibited this fearful disease. Two other dogs were chained 
within his sight, and his efforts to get at them were savagely fu- 
rious ; but at the appearance of his master he became as quiet as 
a lamb. He was brought without difficulty to my house in a hack- 
ney coach ; he submitted to the muzzle, and, afterwards, to a co- 
pious bleeding, which I, at the entreaty of the master, was fool- 
ish enough to undertake. The delusion was confined entirely to 
his companions. They, in his mind, were the authors of the ma- 
lady under which he suffered, and on them he was eager to be 
revenged. 
A lady would nurse her dog after he became rabid, and when 
he was dangerous to every body but herself, and even to herself, 
from the saliva which he threw about. At length he darted at 
every servant that entered the room, until, a footman keeping the 
brute at bay with the poker, the husband of the lady dragged 
her from the room. The noise which he made was terrific ; and 
he almost gnawed his way through the door. At midnight his 
violence nearly ceased, and the door was partially opened. He 
was seen staggering and falling about, with every limb violently 
agitated — he could not hold his head still for a moment. At the 
