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tonsils, and probable deficiency of mucus to lubricate the pas¬ 
sage to the throat, I partly attribute the insatiable thirst of the 
rabid dog. 
Injection of minute vessels on the back of the epiglottis : 
sometimes merely a few ramifications; occasionally a beautiful 
net-work of vessels. When much injection upon the epiglottis 
the membrane covering the arytenoid cartilage is likewise 
vascular. The edge of the epiglottis is frequently thickened 
Intense and never-failing inflammation at the angle at the 
back of the larynx, behind the epiglottis. The appearances 
presented by the trachea very uncertain, varying from the 
deepest inflammation, and that extending even to the bronchise, 
to a perfect freedom from unusual vascularity. The membrane 
of the bronchim occasionally highly inflamed, and the bron¬ 
chial passages, and the lower part of the trachea filled with a 
viscid or bloody spume. But this, contrary to the opinion of 
some continental writers, comparatively seldom occurring and 
not characteristic of the disease. 
In a few instances, inflammation of the substance of the 
lungs; more rarely, congestion; but very singular patches of 
inflammation on the pleurae, and, sometimes, on the pleura of 
one lung only. 
The oesophagus rarely affected; the stomach invariably* 
Vascularity and redness, in some cases confined to the rugae, 
and not much exceeding the blush upon the healthy stomach 
during digestion; but more frequently descending between the 
rugae, and occupying a considerable portion of the mucous coat. 
Confined occasionally to the cardiac portion, or more intense 
there ; but, in a few instances, extending and with the deepest 
intensity over the whole of the stomach. Spots of ecchymosis, 
varying from the magnitude of a pin’s head to that of a large 
pea, very generally, but not invariably found. They appear 
in a few cases, where the slight degree of inflammation would 
not warrant the expectation of them ; and they never fail to 
accompany deep and general inflammation. These spots con¬ 
tain a central depression, often sinking deep into the coats 
of the stomach. A variable quantity of indigesta in the sto¬ 
mach ; not the grass eagerly sought for by dogs in health, nor 
the bits of stick, or small stones, or pieces of coal, swallowed 
by puppies, during the period of dentition ; nor the execrement 
eaten by some dogs, and particularly by spaniels under the in¬ 
fluence of a depraved appetite; but a strangely mingled mass 
of straw, hay, hair, horse-dung, and earth. In some instances 
the stomach perfectly distended with these substances, which 
occupy even the duodenum and jejunum. 
