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sistence, except that the right lobe and the floating portion of the 
plexus choroides were injected with blood ; but this may probably 
be explained by the circumstance of the animal having remained 
on his right side from the time of his death. The spinal canal was 
explored with care through its whole extent, but there was no 
lesion, except that the cord had lost a little of its consistence in the 
cervical portion. 
As for the ass, no one would have expected the existence of 
rabies, except that between the thirty-sixth and the fortieth day 
from his having been bitten by a dog, he kicked violently, and 
without provocation, at a little girl that led him. He was brought 
to the veterinary school on the 23d of May, securely fastened be- 
hind a carriage. On his arrival, he took, from time to time, a 
mouthful of hay, and expressed no dread of water, no nervous agi- 
tation, no shivering; but he frequently brayed with a peculiar 
hoarse voice, and rushed forward open mouthed, to bite either men 
or animals that came near to him. He was most eager to get at 
the dogs, although before he became ill he had never exhi- 
bited any antipathy towards them. Profiting by this propensity 
to attack the dog, we brought within his reach four of them, which 
the police had found in the streets of Lyons. He seized each 
of them with fury by the back, by the legs, and by various parts 
of the body, and threw himself upon them as if he was determined 
to destroy them outright. One of these dogs was wounded in the 
lips. The other bites only caused bruises of greater or less size ; 
for we know that the incisor teeth of the herbivorous animals flat- 
tened on their opposing surfaces, usually do little more than to 
bruise the parts with which they come in contact. 
These dogs were then confined, and watched with care, and, with 
the exception of one that, when he was exposed to the ass was 
in a feeble state and who died on the twelfth day of a disease very 
different from rabies, they were on the fiftieth day apparently in 
perfect health. They were then destroyed by the knacker. 
On the second day the ass appeared to be dreadfully agitated — 
he shifted his position every instant — he bit himself on the chest and 
the fore-arm — he gnashed his teeth with spasmodic force. At length 
the violence of the spasm ceased, and permanent trismus ensued. 
He was no longer able to draw the hay from the rack, nor did he 
attempt it, nor did he touch his water, except with the very tip of 
his lips. 
On the third day his limbs could no longer support him. He 
made many useless efforts to raise himself, and to discharge his 
faeces. As in the preceding subject, the partial palsy was con- 
fined to the loss of motion alone, the sensibility remaining unim- 
paired. At 4 PM. he died, in violent convulsions. 
