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RABIES ANI) CONGESTION OF THE BRAIN. 
her to the cowhouse some ducks were in the road, but which she 
did not like to come near. She was only supposed to be a little 
unwell. The next morning she was taken to the field to see how 
she would behave, when she again met with a lot of ducks, at 
which she ran furiously. She was bled almost to syncope, and it 
is supposed that she lost nearly three quarts of blood. A quarter 
of a pound of salts were given. 
8 th . — I saw her at night. She did not then shew that much 
was the matter with her, and she retreated from me when I at- 
tempted to strike her with my walking-stick, but still, from her 
roaring and other symptoms, I was inclined to believe that all 
was not right; indeed, I feared that rabies existed, and would 
shew itself more on the following day, although I could believe 
that the bleeding had subdued the disease a little. 
9 th, 3 p.m. — She was standing up when I got there, but soon 
manifested symptoms of the disease by bellowing until her head 
almost touched the ground, and then she would drop on her fore 
legs first, her whole body soon following. On attempting to 
frighten her she would run at us, as the other did. I had a 
bucketful of water brought to her, and she immediately got the 
edge of it in her mouth to bite it, and tried to put her nose under 
it to upset it. She then put her nose into the water, but did not 
shew much inclination to drink, although I think she effected one 
swallow. I then made a noise in the water with my stick, which 
seemed to disturb her very much, as she began bellowing, and 
continued to do so as long as 1 stirred the water: it seemed to 
disturb her whole frame, and she appeared to become more and 
more wild and irritable. I repeated this many times, and with 
the same result. 
i moved my stick about and before her face, but it did not at 
all annoy her, nor would she go away, however hard I struck her. 
I did not see her eat any thing although I put some hay before 
her. I also threw some tops of turnips to her, but she only mum- 
bled them. The men said, that in the course of the day she ran 
against the walls and stalls, evidently with a design to butt and 
do injury, and that she had eaten a little hay, but did not know 
whether she had drunk any water. 
She was evidently getting weaker and exhausted, in com- 
parison to what she was when I last saw her. She had been 
drenched with mag. sulph. §iv in the morning. Her general ap- 
pearance, at times, was lively, and her eyes looked clear. Some- 
times she gaped and frothed at the mouth. Although she 
looked thus well, she would at times suddenly become depressed, 
and lie down as if exhausted, and I fancied that she would be 
dead before the morning. 
