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ANIMAL PATHOLOGY. 
The horse is the servant and not the friend of man, and if his com- 
panion, yet the oppressed one. In proportion to his bulk he has 
far less of that portion of the brain with which intelligence 
is connected — less attachment — less gratitude. He is a noble 
animal. I am not speaking disparagingly of him ; but I am 
comparing him with — next to man — the most intellectual of all 
quadrupeds. There is neither the motive for, nor the capability 
of, that attachment which the dog feels for his master, and there.- 
fore, under the influence of this disease, he abandons himself to 
all its dreadful excitement. 
The mare of Mr. Karslake, when the period of incubation had 
quite passed, forgot her former drooping dispirited state : her 
respiration was accelerated — her mouth was covered with foam — 
a violent perspiration covered every part of her, and her screams 
would cow the stoutest heart. She presently demolished all the 
wood-work of the stable, and then she was employed in beating 
to pieces the fragments, no human being having exposed himself 
to her fury. 
The symptoms of the malady of Mr. Moneyment’s pony 
rapidly increased — he bit everything within his reach, even dif- 
ferent parts of his own body. Mr. Marshall's patient was foaming 
— breathing laboriously — his tail erect — screaming dreadfully at 
short intervals, striking the ground with his fore feet, and per- 
spiring most profusely; at length he broke the top of his 
manger, and rushed out of the stall with it hanging to his halter. 
He made immediately towards the medical attendant, and the 
spectators who were standing by. They fortunately succeeded 
in getting out of his way, and he turned into the next stall, and 
dropped and died. 
A young veterinary friend of mine very incautiously and 
fool-hardily attempted to ball a rabid horse. The animal had 
previously shewn himself to be dangerous, and had slightly 
bitten a person who gave him a ball on the preceding evening ; 
and now he seized the young student’s hand, and lifted him from 
the ground, and shook him, as a terrier would shake a rat. It was 
with the greatest difficulty, and not until the grooms had 
attacked the ferocious animal with their pitch-forks, that they 
could compel him to relinquish his hold ; and, even then, not 
before he had bitten his victim to the bone, and torn almost the 
whole of the flesh away from the upper and lower surfaces of the 
hand # . 
Treachery .— -There is also in the horse, whose affection for his 
owner is so easily and so often transferred, a degree of treachery 
* In the Museum of the Veterinary School at Alfort, is the lower jaw of 
a rabid horse, which was fractured in his violent attempt to do mischief. 
