ON RABIES IN THE HORSE. 
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There was a glaring brightness in the eye, and an intense 
power of sight that was truly astonishing. The place he was in 
was an old building boarded at the ends and behind him ; and 
it was impossible for any one to peep through a crack that could 
at all come within the range of his vision, but he instantly dis- 
covered it, and as instantly made a dart in that direction. 
I was obliged to leave him in consequence of other business, 
but fixed an hour in the evening to attend again ; I did so, and 
found a man ready with a gun to shoot him. Nothing could 
induce Mr. Robinson to run the hazard of leaving him any 
longer; for he felt persuaded that, if he broke from his fasten- 
ing, and got out of the place that he was in, he would kill 
every one that he got near to, and this was also the opinion of all 
who saw him. 
He was fired at several times before he was killed ; and of all 
the deaths of horses that I ever saw, his was the hardest and 
the most horrible. He yielded nothing, but fought with death 
and all around him to the last gasp of existence. He shrieked 
dreadfully as every fresh ball hit him : his dilated eye, as if at- 
tempting to burst from its socket, flashed with the wild vehe- 
mence of unsubdued ferocity; and from his distended nostrils he 
scattered around him the foam of his suffering, mingled with 
the red stream of his own life-blood. During the whole of this time 
he evinced a perfect and most alarming consciousness of the 
death awaiting him, yet he disputed every inch with the destroyer. 
He reeled and staggered, and would not fall, till nature could 
no longer support him on his feet ; then, with a horrid yell, he 
went down foaming with impotent rage, and worrying every 
thing within his reach; and if ever a countenance breathed a 
curse so bitter that the force of language could not equal it, his 
was that expression in death. 
I have no doubt that every one who witnessed the termination 
of that horse’s existence will retain the remembrance of it now, 
as vividly as they did the day after it occurred. 
I was of course very anxious to learn every particular respect- 
ing this case, and made the most strict inquiries. I was con- 
vinced it was one of rabies; and I learned that a dog, supposed 
to be mad, had passed through the village a month or five weeks 
before; but there Was something rather unsatisfactory about the 
case after all, for I could not find any wound that was likely to 
have been made with the teeth of a dog, though it is most pro- 
bable that he had really been bitten, and that the wound had 
healed : this perhaps may receive some confirmation from what 
I have still to relate. 1 anxiously interrogated the waggoner 
and others as to the first symptoms discovered in this patient, 
