15S 
HYDROPHOBIA. 
strength, and sleep well. But all the indications be¬ 
yond this go to prove that the original epilepsy, which 
was the first manifestation of brain disease among 
them, has been followed by a true lunacy. They 
bark frenziedly at nothing, and walk in straight and 
curved lines with anxious and unwearying perseve¬ 
rance. 
“ They fawn on you, hut without seeming to appre¬ 
ciate the notice you give them in return; pushing 
their heads against your person, or oscillating with a 
strange pantomime of fear. Their most intelligent 
actions seem automatic: sometimes they claw you, as 
if trying to burrow into your seal-skins; sometimes 
they remain for hours in moody silence, and then start 
off howling as if pursued, and run up and down for 
hours. 
“So it was with poor Flora, our ‘wise dog.’ She 
was seized with the endemic spasms, and, after a few 
wild violent paroxysms, lapsed into a lethargic con¬ 
dition, eating voraciously, but gaining no strength. 
This passing off, the same crazy wildness took posses¬ 
sion of her, and she died of brain disease {arachnoidal 
effusion) in about six weeks. Generally, they perish 
with symptoms resembling locked-jaw in less than 
thirty-six hours after the first attack.” 
On the 22d, I took my first walk on the great floe, 
which had been for so long a time a crude, black laby¬ 
rinth. I give the appearance of things in the words 
of my journal. 
“ The floe has changed wonderfully. I remember it 
