RABIES IN A COW AND PIGS, AND ON RABIES 
GENERALLY. 
By Mr. R. Pritchard, Wolverhampton. 
[We have much pleasure in presenting our readers with this 
valuable Essay on Rabies. It cannot but be gratifying to us to 
find so many of the opinions which, several years ago, we had 
ventured to lay before the public on this neglected subject 
sanctioned by Mr. Pritchard’s extensive experience. We can 
afford to differ from each other on some minor points, when, 
very soon, Rabies Canina will form the subject of half a dozen 
successive lectures. — Y.] 
A rabid dog entered the farm-yard of Mr. George Strongi- 
tharm, of Calderfield, near Walsall, on the 27th December, 1835. 
Mr. S. had previously heard of the dog worrying his neighbour’s 
sheep, and, from the outward character of the animal, at once 
recognized him as being the same, and supposed to be mad. 
The dog immediately attacked the house-dog of Mr. S. which 
was chained up in the yard, and the gun was hastily run for. 
The powder and shot being unfortunately mislaid, some time 
was lost ; and in the meanwhile the mad dog escaped, and no 
trace of him could be discovered. It was afterwards supposed 
that the animal had secreted himself in the buildings, for he 
returned again to the yard about one to two o’clock the follow- 
ing morning, and attacked some pigs, which making a consider- 
able outcry, roused Mr. S. and his servants from their beds, and 
they, proceeding with the gun already loaded, discovered him, and 
succeeded in destroying him. 
He was of the bull and terrier breed, exceedingly tucked up 
in the belly from fasting ; ar.d the inside ©f his mouth so dry and 
parched, that it more resembled the surface of an unplaned board 
than a mucous membrane. 
Two of the pigs had evidently received wounds in their noses 
from the dog, which soon got well, no curative or preventive 
measures being had recourse to, and without much irritation or 
swelling taking place. These two pigs were kept in a sty for 
a fortnight, and then, appearing to be quite recovered from their 
wounds, and nothing untoward being observable in them, they 
were again turned into the yard to their old companions. 
