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A CASE OF RABIES IN A HORSE. 
[Extracted from Le Recueil de Med. Vet., d’Avril 1841.] 
An entire horse was brought to the Veterinary School at Alfort 
on the 24th of June, 1840. Since the preceding evening, he 
seemed to find some difficulty in swallowing, whether he ate or 
drank. Both the masticated food and the fluid were returned 
through his nostrils. The character of the animal had suddenly 
changed. He was sadly unquiet, and was continually pawing 
the ground. He threw himself on the right or the left if any one 
endeavoured to touch his throat, but, otherwise, he neither at- 
tempted to kick or to bite. 
When I saw him he was fastened to a ring in the wall, and 
pawed the ground without ceasing. I unfastened him, and gave 
him some water. It was returned through the nose. I ex- 
amined his throat ; it was a little swollen, and seemed to be 
painful. I succeeded in seizing his tongue to examine his 
mouth ; — it was filled with ropy spume, but the mucous membrane 
was in its natural state. 
I thought at first that it was the commencement of angina, 
and I attributed the impatience and irritability of the animal 
to the difficulty of breathing which he was beginning to exhibit. 
He was bled, and the proprietor took him away with some cool- 
ing medicine. 
At eight o’clock on the following morning he was brought 
again to the infirmary. The horse had been restless during the 
whole of the preceding day and night. He rolled as if he suf- 
fered from colicky pains. He was continually pawing the ground 
with one or the other fore-foot. He gnawed his manger from 
time to time. Sometimes he seized a mouthful of the skin 
of his fore-arm, and seemed as if he would tear it. The sight of 
a dog produced a violent state of irritation — he endeavoured to 
bite him, or to strike him w-ith his feet. When he saw other 
horses, contrary to his usual habit, he endeavoured to attack 
them with his teeth and his feet. 
This change, so extraordinary in a horse that had been habitu- 
ally so good-tempered, caused the proprietor to wish to bring 
him back to the school. He was easily untied and led from his 
stall, without attempting to kick or to bite any one ; and the man 
who held the halter, not without danger, but fortunately without 
accident, led him from Villie-juif to Alfort. Several times during 
the journey he laydown, rolled and beat himself violently, and 
tried to seize several horses and especially some dogs which 
