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ANIMAL PATHOLOGY. 
Pritchard, il in observing the effect of the wind, which was high 
and very cold at that time, upon her. She was screened from it 
by a wall ; but when she lifted up her head, and the blast blew 
in her face, there was a spasmodic twitching of the superficial 
muscles passing over her in tremulous undulation. ” 
Affection of the Generative Organs . — I have now to speak of 
symptoms of rare occurrence in the human being, the dog, and 
the horse, but frequently observed in cattle. Instances of pria- 
pism in the male of the human species, and of furor uterinus in 
the female, are certainly on record. In the dreadful disorder of 
all the mental and moral faculties by which this disease is some- 
times characterized, who can say what instinct or sentiment may 
not be morbidly and disgustingly increased ? I would not refer to 
this while treating of the dog, because I knew that I should 
have more to say of it when rabies in cattle came under consi- 
deration. In a very few cases this animal feeling has been 
strangely increased in the dog. Every female of the same spe- 
cies, whether or not under the influence of oestrum, is attacked; 
and with the true character of the disease, the ferocious dog, 
whether his ferocity is natural or acquired, is no sooner parted 
from his paramour than he attacks her with the utmost fury, and 
literally tears her to pieces. The rabid horse has broken into 
the paddock of the mares, and annoyed, or injured, or destroyed 
some of them in the fury of his love or of his rage. This is 
still oftener the case in the animals now under consideration. 
The bull, the ox, and the cow, occasionally labour under the 
morbidly increased influence of the sexual passion in the early 
stage of rabies ; and where the cattle, as in the wilder parts of 
the United Kingdom, and particularly in some foreign countries, 
are suffered to -range at large on the mountains or the moors, 
strange disorder and mischief have happened in the herd from 
this cause. It is, however, far from being a general symptom. 
It does not occur to any great extent in one case out of a dozen, 
but more in foreign countries than in ours. 
Tenesmus and Strangury . — In the human being it is seldom 
that the alvine secretions are much disturbed, nor are they in 
the dog, except that there is frequently very obstinate costiveness, 
or the feces are principally composed of the strange matters 
which a rabid dog alone will eat. Under the partial paralysis which 
accompanies the later stages of rabies in the domestic quadru- 
peds, the sphincter of the anus is seldom affected. It is occa- 
sionally so in the horse, but distressing tenesmus is rarely seen. 
I described a case of it in the ass in my last lecture. Tenesmus, 
however, almost invariably accompanies the closing scene of this 
