RABIES, OR MADNESS. 
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warm soap and water should be often used. Or, the follow¬ 
ing, which is most to be depended upon — 
Aloes ... 1 ounce, 
to be dissolved in a pint of water. Afterwards a quarter oi 
an ounce every four hours until it operates. 
After this such medicines should be given as have a ten¬ 
dency to diminish the circulation : foxglove in drink of 
doses of one drachm each, every six or eight hours ; or, 
instead of the foxglove, tartar emetic in the same quantity 
may be given. 
If the above treatment does not immediately arrest the 
disease, death is sure to follow speedily 
RABIES, OR MADNESS. 
Symptoms. — While the horse is apparently in perfect 
health, he will of a sudden stop, be seized with a trembling 
all over his body, will paw the ground violently, heave 
heavily, stagger, and fall down. In a few seconds he will 
rise again, and proceed a little way on his journey, when he 
will again stand still, look anxiously about him, and will 
again come down. He will again get up, and is then seized 
with the most violent paroxysm of frenzy, attempting to bite 
other horses or his groom, and will kick and plunge in the 
most furious manner; and if in a stable, striking at the wall 
or sides of his stall, or indeed at any object which may be 
near him, until the perspiration stands upon his whole body 
like foam. The animal is seized with almost insatiable thirst. 
He will continue in this furious state until quite exhausted ; 
and will remain in a quiescent condition for some hours, 
when another paroxysm will ensue. These fits will succeed 
each other at intervals for two or three days, when a ter¬ 
mination will be put to them by death 
