RABIES IN THE COW.— SYMPTOMS. 
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down : he runs eagerly at it and tosses it about. It makes no 
difference what is the object ; if a hat is shewn from the windows 
or over the partition in the stable, ora lock of hay is presented to 
him, he rushes at either of them, and demolishes it in a moment, 
or, if it is withdrawn, he tears up the ground with his feet. He 
works himself into a perfect fury — dreadful convulsions agitate 
every limb, and he falls, struggles violently for awhile, and then 
scrambles up again, goes to some favourite corner in the stable, 
and there stands trembling. In the course of a few minutes 
the eyes close, and the head droops, and the animal doses on, un- 
til either the paroxysm returns of itself, or he is roused by some 
accidental noise. 
The Dread of Water . — I do not think that this has ever been 
unequivocally observed in cattle. It is true that Dr. Ashburner 
speaks of a rabid cow falling into violent convulsions when water 
was splashed upon her; and Mr. Bainbridge says that, a pailful 
of water being set before another cow similarly affected, she 
plunged her nose into it as if to drink, and suddenly withdrew it, 
and seemed convulsed and unable to swallow. Mr. Pritchard 
states, as 1 have just related, that, although a cow, when a pail of 
water was lowered into the stable, became excited and con- 
vulsed, the same derangement was produced if a hat or even a 
lock of hay was exhibited. We should not, however, be war- 
ranted in concluding that there is no dread of water in rabid cat- 
tle, because out of a hundred-fold more cases of rabies in the dog, 
the instances have been few and far between in which the slight- 
est degree of hydrophobia was witnessed. Certainly, comparing 
the numbers together, we should have no right to expect, among 
the few cases that are recorded, a single one in which the charac- 
teristic symptom of rabies in the human being would be found. 
There was, nevertheless, palsy of the muscles of the lips and 
mouth in Mr. Bainbridge’s case — there was no difficulty in swal- 
lowing the medicine after it was poured into the cow’s mouth, 
but she could not take any water from the pail : while in the 
patient of Mr. Pritchard, “the pharyngeal muscles frequently con- 
tracted, giving a kind of gulping action to the throat, as if to force 
something down and in the case of Mr. Tombs, when water 
was offered to her, she made several ineffectual attempts to swal- 
low it. On the whole, although there is some difference of symp- 
toms, there is sufficient resemblance to warrant us in considering; 
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the disease as essentially the same in the dog and the ox. 
Cutaneous Sensibility . — You have often heard of the universal 
tremor or horrible paroxysm which -a current of air will produce 
in the human patient. u I was much interested,” says Mr. 
