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at everything within his reach, his whole frame being dreadfully 
spasmed.” 
Progress of the Disease . — As the disease progresses, not only 
is the animal rapidly debilitated, but there is the peculiar stag- 
gering gait which we have observed in the dog, referrible to 
evident loss of power in the muscles of the lumbar region. I 
once saw a mare sitting on her haunches and unable to rise, yet 
using her fore feet with the utmost fury, and suffering no one to 
come within her reach. She too would sometimes plunge her 
muzzle into the offered pail, but immediately withdraw it in 
evident terror, while every limb trembled. At other times the 
lowering of the pail would affright her, and she would fall on her 
side and furiously struggle. Although this symptom is not often 
observed in the dog, it is a satisfactory identification of the 
disease, when it is so frequently seen in the horse, and so 
invariably in the human being. 
The earliest and perhaps the most decisive symptom of the 
near approach of rabies in the horse, is a spasmodic movement 
of the upper lip, particularly of the angles of the lip. Close 
following on this, or contemporaneous with it, is the depressed and 
anxious countenance, and inquiring gaze, suddenly however 
lighted up and becoming fierce and menacing, from some 
unknown cause, or at the approach of a stranger. From time to 
time different parts of the frame — the eyes, the jaws, particular 
limbs — will be convulsed ; the eye will occasionally wander after 
some imaginary object, and the horse will snap again and 
again at that which has no real existence. Then will come 
the irrepressible desire to bite the attendants — the animals 
within its reach ; to this will succeed the demolition of the 
rack — the manger — the whole furniture of the stable — accom- 
panied by the peculiar dread of water which has been already 
described. Towards the close of the affair there is generally 
paralysis, principally of or generally confined to the loins and 
the hinder extremities, or involving those organs which derive 
their nervous influence from this portion of the spinal cord; 
hence the distressing tenesmus which is occasionally seen. 
Rabies in the Ass. — My friend Mr. Simonds described to me 
a case of this disease in an ass which he accidentally had oppor- 
tunity of observing. There was the evident pain in the bitten part 
— the leg. The wound had been carefully dressed and covered, 
but he was continually endeavouring to get at it and bite it, 
although carefully muzzled in order to prevent him. He would 
parade the box in which he was placed with his nostrils ex- 
panded, and his chest heaving, and his eyes glaring ; biting at 
imaginary objects, and at every thing within his reach. Every now 
