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ON RABIES. 
It made no difference whether it was a handful of hay, a pail of 
water, or a hat taken from the head ; she was equally furious, 
dashing at it, and occasionally coming in contact with the wall. 
A cow-crib which stood in the yard she had demolished into 
firewood. When more excited, she became exceedingly furious; 
roared, tore up the soil with her fore feet, and then becoming 
terribly convulsed, she fell down, rolled on her back, forced her 
horns into the manure, and in this position lay a few seconds, as 
if dying : she would then rise from the fit and resume her favourite 
spot. The eye was, during the tranquil state, half closed, as if 
drowsy; but she readily caught sight of everything offered to her, 
and when infuriated, her eye was fiery and wild, as if starting 
from its socket. The saliva frothed in white foam from her 
mouth, a yellow inspissated mucus covered her tongue, and a 
yellowish slaver drivelled to the ground. The pharyngeal muscles 
frequently contracted, giving a kind of gulping action to the 
throat, as if to force something down. When she lifted her head so 
as to receive the breeze over the wall, a spasmodic twitching of 
the superficial muscles passed over her in tremulous undulation. 
I saw her stale, which she accomplished in the usual way, and 
without agitation. 
Being perfectly satisfied as to the nature of the case, I ordered 
her to be shot. Previous to this, I did not observe any move- 
ment of the calf ; but it kicked very much while the cow was 
dying. Mr. S. was exceedingly alarmed for the safety of his 
stock, and particularly desired that no post-mortem examination 
might be made ; consequently, I have no record of the morbid 
appearances after death. 
I have forwarded these cases of rabies to The Veterinarian 
for insertion, thinking they may be interesting to some of its 
readers. It is a dreadful disease. It makes one shudder to think of 
the suffering which accompanies it, and the horrid termination of it 
in the human subject; and in the quadruped it requires some de- 
gree of resolution and power of mind to approach and witness the 
frightful character of the malady, to say nothing of the agonies 
of the animal labouring under it. 
I do not know what information English veterinary surgeons 
may possess on the subject of rabies; but, with some few excep- 
tions, what they do know they keep to themselves. The profes- 
sion will pardon me for saying, I fear that with us it has not been 
sufficiently studied. It is a disease with which the veterinarian 
should make himself, to the utmost of his power, acquainted. 
It strictly belongs to the diseases of the quadruped ; and from 
him — the veterinarian — it is but reasonable to expect the most 
satisfactory and valuable information respecting it. The safety of 
