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droop, and droop — but all at once, at the slightest touch, or at 
the near approach of any one, the animal will suddenly rouse 
himself up, and the eye will become wild and fiery, as if it were 
starting from its socket. As plainly and as palpably as in the 
dog, he will trace the path of some imaginary object. Now, too, 
will come the decided change of voice : it is as marked as in the 
rabid horse. “ She bellowed loudly,” says Mr Tombs, of Per- 
shore, describing a rabid cow on which he had attended, “ and 
very peculiarly, the tone of voice being the most singular I ever 
heard.” Every time the beast rouses from his fit of abstraction 
or half-sleepiness this bellowing is heard, and, having once been 
heard, it can never afterwards be mistaken. 
Contemporaneous with this is the singularly altered appetite. 
I have said that the animal is at first indifferent to food, or turns 
from it with loathing, and the desire for wholesome food does not 
often return ; but that which it will still eagerly devour is its own 
dung, or that of its companions. “ At one time,” says Dr. Ash- 
burner, describing a rabid cow at Weston, near Bath, “ she was 
seen attempting to eat a little hay, but it was soon vomited 
again. She then voided a small quantity of black hard dung, to 
which she turned round, and in a short time ate it up.” 
The temper is now changed to a greater or less degree, de- 
pendent on the previous habits and character of the patient. 
Mr. Tombs describes a cow that, when a hen came by chance 
into the shed in which she was, ran at it, and pawed the litter 
with her fore feet; but he adds, “ this was the only time in which 
she appeared to be in the least excited.” The case at other times 
is very different : the animal pursues its companions, bellowing 
and butting with the greatest fury ; or it rushes ferociously at 
every person and every object within its reach. Generally speak- 
ing, however, although there is the highest state of excitement, 
there is no selection of objects, as in the dog. I once saw a bull 
standing across a path in a meadow, bellowing incessantly and 
tearing up the ground with his horns ; but he made no attempt 
to get at those who were w atching him with some degree of alarm 
on the other side of the gate. There is no treachery as in 
the dog, and occasionally in the horse, in order to lure some vic- 
tim within its reach. Although there may be considerable mis- 
chief done, there is no clearing of the whole of the interior of the 
stable. He must often be roused into his fits of fury, although 
it must be acknowledged that it does not require a great deal of 
trouble to effect this. A bucket of water is lowered into the stable ; 
he plunges at it, and overturns it long ere it reaches the ground ; 
and when the water is splashed about and comes upon him, he 
suddenly falls into violent convulsions. A piece of wood is let 
