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fidgetiness; continual shifting of posture; a stedfast gaze, 
expressing suspicion; but, when directed on the master, soon 
clearing up, and followed by some action indicating affection. 
An earnest licking of some part, on which a scar is generally 
found. If the ear be the affected part, the dog is incessantly 
and violently scratching it. If it.be the foot, he gnaws it until 
the integument is destroyed. He gets into a passion with it, 
and growls over it; and is so insensible to pain, that in one 
case the foot was dreadfully mangled, and in another the great¬ 
er part of the penis was gnawed away. 
Considerable costiveness ; occasional vomiting ; a depraved 
appetite very early commences; bits of thread, hair, straw, * 
dung, are picked up; and very frequently the dog will lap his 
own urine, and devour his own excrement. The animal now 
becomes irritable ; flies fiercely at strangers; mumbles the hand 
or foot of his master ; is impatient of correction ; seizes the 
stick of a whip ; quarrels with his own companions; eagerly 
hunts out and worries the cats ; demolishes his bed or carpet; 
o;naws and shakes his chain: makes the most violent efforts 
to escape; tears to pieces his kennel or the door by which 
he is confined, and breaks his tushes in the attempt.. If he 
escapes he sometimes attacks those dogs only that fall in his 
way; or, if naturally ferocious, he will diligently and perse- 
veringly seek his prey. He will overcome every obstacle to ef¬ 
fect his puspose, and at length returns to his home completely 
exhausted. 
The desire to do mischief depends much on his previous 
disposition : it often proceeds not beyond an occasional snap, 
and then only when purposely irritated. But with the fight¬ 
ing dog the scene is terrific : he springs to the end of his chain ; 
he darts with ferocity at some object which he conceives to be 
within his reach; and is eagerly employed in destroying every 
thing around them. 
Very early in the disease the expression of the countenance 
is changed. The conjunctiva is occasionally highly injected, at 
other times scarcely affected; \)\xt the eyes have a peculiarly 
bright and dazzling appearance, accompanied by a slight stra¬ 
bismus ; not the protrusion of the membrana nictitans as in 
distemper, but an actual distortion from the natural axis of 
the eye: the lids of one eye are frequently contracted; 
twitchings begin around that eye, and gradually spread over the 
face. About the second day a considerable discharge of saliva 
commences ; but this does not continue more than ten or twelve 
hours, and is succeeded by an insatiable thirst: the dog is 
incessantly drinking or attempting to drink; he plunges his 
