RABIES IN THE HORSE. — SYMPTOMS. 
583 
they evidently result from a mental purpose to do evil. The 
mad dog has usually a disposition to rove — the distempered one, 
never.” 
Farther Caution . — Enteritis and spasmodic colic have occa- 
sionally somewhat closely simulated rabies; and I confess that 
more than once I have for awhile been unable satisfactorily to 
distinguish between them. There has been the same restless- 
ness, scraping together of the bed, general irritability, intensely 
anxious look, and the howl has not been very dissimilar. The 
distinguishing symptoms of each are not, however, slow in deve- 
loping themselves. If there is much restlessness and alteration, 
it is evidently with a design to relieve pain, and not from mere 
fidgettiness, or ill temper, displayed in the attempt to tear the 
bed to pieces rather than to smooth it. If there is irritability 
and ill temper, it is exhibited only when the dog is annoyed and 
disturbed ; there is no systematic plan to effect mischief. If 
there is the intensely anxious look, it is expressive more of pain 
than anger ; it is a depressed supplicating gaze, rather than a 
fiery ferocious one. And if there is the howl somewhat resem- 
bling the rabid one, it is preceded by a whine and a moan never 
heard in the rabid dog : it has not the prior characteristic bark 
of irritability or defiance ; it is a howl, and not a mingled bark 
and howl. You may mistake, or be undecided for a little while ; 
but twelve hours will not pass without the different course of the 
two diseases removing all doubt about the matter. In a disease 
like this, and involving human as well as quadruped welfare, I 
trust that you will not think me descending to unnecessary 
minutiae. I acknowledge my own wanderings when I had but 
little to guide me in my proper path, and I would warn you 
against those, the consciousness of the commission of which 
annoyed and degraded me, at least in my own estimation. 
Rabies in the Horse . — I will now proceed to the consideration 
of the symptoms of rabies in other domesticated animals. There 
is occasional warning of the approach of this disease in the 
Horse. A mare, belonging to Mr. Karslake, the most furious 
I ever saw, had, during ten days before the recognition of the 
disease, been drooping, refusing her food, heaving at the flank, 
and pawing occasionally. It was plain enough that she was indis- 
posed ; but at length the furious fit came upon her, and she de- 
stroyed almost every thing in the stable in the course of an hour. 
Our excellent friend, the late Mr. Moneyment, had a two 
years’ old colt brought to his establishment. Before he saw it, 
he asked the owner what was the matter with it. The man replied 
that “it was taken ill in the afternoon of the preceding day, when 
it first attracted attention by refusing its food, and throwing itself 
