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unhappiness and affliction. The eye is bright, the ear is pricked 
up, the face sharpened, while the under jaw may be a little pen- 
dent: If the mouth is seen open, the mucous surfaces are 
deeply injected with blood ; perhaps the eye, too, looks red and 
fiery, with some strabismus outward. As the disease advances, 
the animal begins to slaver; inflammation gets deeper in the 
throat, by which the voice is changed, and the rabid howl pro- 
duced ; and now the presence of the malady is fully confirmed. 
As the malady proceeds, many other signs confirmatory are ob- 
served ; but I before stated that they very much vary, no two cases 
presenting identity of symptoms. In the raging madness, the 
animal grows hourly more terrific and furious in his manner, 
gnawing and tearing to atoms every thing within his reach ; and 
where no softer material is at hand than the bricks of the kennel 
wall, I have been truly astonished to witness the action of his 
teeth upon them. 
In horses, the earliest symptoms to be confided in are, un- 
tractable disposition ; the eyes look fiery, and the general coun- 
tenance is wild and fierce. They never eat any thing after they 
are attacked, but champ and grind the teeth, and slaver at the 
mouth, with tremulous agitation of the superficial muscles and 
gulping of the throat. The progress of the disease is rapid. 
The animal soon becomes furious ; attempts to kick and bite at 
every thing that comes near him, and at length he begins to dash 
himself against the walls, or, losing his equilibrium, he falls 
violently to the ground. His struggles and plunging, in order 
to get up, are attended with dreadful blows and bruises from re- 
falling when he has partly risen, during the interval of relaxation 
of the violent paroxysm, and his hinder extremities beginning to 
be palsied. I have generally found that some particular part of 
the stable is fixed upon where he stands in tremor, with the eyes 
half closed, or continually pawing, or engaged in some particular 
action, and, whatever that may be, he continues to practise it 
so long as he is able. A mare that I saw some time ago in 
Shropshire, after having levelled every thing with the ground, 
fixed on a cart harness belly-band, with links of chain at each 
end of it, that happened to be left in the stable, which she would 
take in her teeth about its middle, and continue to throw her 
head up and down, by which means it was dreadfully beaten and 
bruised, owing to the loose chains striking it at every action, and 
so she continued to employ herself while she lived. 
In cattle the symptoms are very similar. There is no food 
taken; and in all that I have seen they have been wild and furi- 
ous, making attacks with their heads and horns, bellowing loud 
