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MAMMALIA, 
expresses by a peculiar boarse melancholy cry the pain it suffers, 
and the nature of the deplorable disease with which it is seized. 
At length an indescribable state of madness is manifested by 
offensive acts, that mark the last stages of the malady. The 
animal runs here and there without purpose, biting at whatever 
comes in its way, — Cats, Dogs, Men, Women, or Children, in- 
noculating all its victims with the virus that impregnates its 
saliva. It is rare that it attacks its master, and it is probably 
Fig. 158. — Esquimaux Dogs. 
to avoid this misfortune that it wanders off on feeling the first 
symptoms of the horrible malady. 
The most energetic measures should be taken against rabies. 
Every Dog bitten should be immediately killed; and the same 
law should inflexibly be exercised towards every brute which 
has met with the same misfortune. 
With regard to people who may happen to be wounded by 
rabid animals, the injured part should be cut out and carefully 
cleansed with the shortest possible delay after the accident ; better 
