It ABIES IN THE SHEEP. — SYMPTOMS. 
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malady in cattle. In addition to this is strangury of the most 
distressing kind. The poor beast bows his back, and strains 
and moans as his urine is evacuated almost drop by drop. 
At length comes, in the ox as in all the other quadruped pa- 
tients that have passed in review, palsy, always affecting the 
hinder limbs, and frequently involving the whole of the frame. 
If the animal is suffered to linger out a miserable existence, the 
last or the two last days exhibit utter loss of power to rise, or, 
indeed, to do more than to struggle more or less violently with 
her fore legs, or to throw back the head on the side, speaking of 
some internal suffering there, or seeming to implore that relief 
which the attendant is unable to afford. 
Rabies in the Sheep . — We are indebted to Mr. Harris, of 
Bromyard, for one of the best accounts on record of madness in 
the sheep. An early and a very prevalent symptom is a strange 
excess of sexual feeling. They follow and ride each other about, 
ewes, ewe-lambs, and wethers, and this sometimes continues 
during a couple of days. Mr. Harris says three or four days ; 
but I have never seen it last so long. Sometimes the oestrum 
ceases for awhile, and they feed almost as usual ; then, all at 
once, the paroxysm returns, and the field becomes a scene of 
the strangest confusion. 
When this symptom does not appear, and often at intervals 
when this ungovernable propensity is seen, the sheep exhibits 
considerable ferocity. He will violently attack his companions ; 
he will rush against a tree, a gate, or a wall, and will not cease 
until his frontal bones are laid quite bare. Various phantoms 
are evidently disturbing him, from which he retreats with terror, 
or on which he rushes with fury. It is seldom, however, that he 
exhibits the ungovernable ferocity of the dog. He will nibble or 
angrily seize a stick presented to him, or he will tear the clothes 
of those by whom he is held ; but it is seldom that his violence 
much exceeds this, so far as the human being is concerned. 
During the first two days he will occasionally feed, although, 
after about twenty-four hours have passed, the grass drops again 
from his mouth, not half masticated. 
His appetite is often strangely depraved — he will eat his own 
dung, or that of the horse or cattle — he will eagerly drink the 
filthiest drainings from the dung-heap, and he will gather up 
dirt by mouthfuls. With the exception of this liking for filthy 
water, he rarely exhibits any increased thirst, and in no instance 
have I seen the slightest dread of water. 
Usually during the second day there is a discharge of ropy 
saliva from the mouth, and which the sheep occasionally makes 
violent efforts to get rid of. 
