ON RABIES CANINA. 
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Should no other person take up the subject, it shall be 
resumed hereafter by 
V. S. 
ON RABIES CANINA. By W. Youatt. 
(Continued from p. 64.) 
I HAVE described the symptoms and post-mortem appearances 
of rabies in the dog. They must now be considered in other 
domestic animals. 
However my readers may hereafter differ from me, as to the 
occasional cause of rabies in the dog, there will be no dispute 
that it is produced in the horse by inoculation alone. 
Its attack in that animal is most sudden. He will go out 
apparently well; all at once he will stop, tremble, heave, paw, 
stagger, and fall. Almost immediately he will rise, draw his 
load a little farther, again stop, look about him, back, stagger/ 
and fall. 
This can scarcely be confounded with megrims, for the horse 
is not for a single moment insensible ; and, after seemingly 
recovering, possibly falls twice or thrice before he can be led 
home. The sooner he is led home the better; for the progress 
of the disease is as rapid as the first attack is sudden. 
In many cases, perhaps the majority of them, a state of the 
highest excitation speedily ensues ; the horse kicks and plunges 
in the most violent manner, he is then quiet for a while, recog¬ 
nizes his attendant, is sensible to his caresses, and looks most 
piteously at him. A rabid horse belonging to Mr. Keat pressed 
- his head repeatedly against me ; then, without the slightest 
notice, he plunged and fell. 
Sometimes he is mischievously disposed ; he will furiously 
seize and bite other horses, and even his attendants ; and, as 
Mr. Blaine well describes it, will level with the ground every 
thing before him, himself sweating, and snorting, and foaming 
amidst the ruins. 
Staggering and palsy of the hinder extremities soon succeed. 
I once saw a mare sitting on her haunches, and unable to rise, 
yet pawing furiously with her fore feet. The disease, however, 
quickly runs its course, and rarely extends beyond the third day. 
In two cases I fancied I saw something very much resemblino' 
hydrophobia. The thirst was excessive, but the act of swal- 
lowing-was performed with a forced gulping effort, and suddenly 
