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ON RABIES CANINA. 
the head was snatched from the pail with a strange contraction, 
a kind of risus sardonicus of the lips. 
In Mr. Keat’s horse there was a peculiarity which I have in 
no other case seen, and which no author has described. The 
owmer would not have him destroyed, and we slung him in an 
early stage of the disease. He had been bitten in the near 
leg, behind. When I approached him on that side the poor 
animal was agitated, and trembled, and struggled as well as 
he could, and if I touched him with only my finger, the 
f ulsations were quickened more than 10 beats a minute. When 
w^ent round to the off-side, he permitted me to pat him, 
and even sought my notice. 
In every case in w^hich I have had opportunity to examine 
the animal after death, I have found inflammation on fhe 
epiglottis, and generally in the trachea. There has uniformly 
been inflammation in the stomach, and on the lungs, and in 
patches, as in the dog. Either the membranes or substance 
of the medulla oblongata have always been injected. 
I have seen but one rabid ox. His disease commenced with 
loss of appetite and dulness; but it soon changed to the 
most dreadful state of excitation. When I saw him he was 
standing across a path in a meadow^, bellowing incessantly, 
and tearing up the ground with his horns. I believe, how¬ 
ever, that much ferocity does not usually accompany rabies 
in the ox. The eyes are anxious, protruding, and red. The 
appetite lost. A considerable discharge of saliva in the early 
stage of the disease, and when that ceases, insatiable thirst 
follows. No hydrophobia. A frequent and pitiful lowing. A 
distressing tenesmus. Weakness of the loins and early stag¬ 
gering, succeeded on the third or fourth day by palsy of the 
hinder extremities. The animal lingers on six or seven days, 
‘ and usually dies without a struggle. 
The post-mortem appearances in the pharynx very much 
resemble those in the horse. Both the membranes and sub¬ 
stance of the medulla oblongata w^ere injected in the case 
which I saw; but the stomachs w ere perfectly free from in¬ 
flammation. I inoculated a dog wdth the saliva of this ox and 
he died rabid. 
In sheep the character and progress of the disease are not 
very different. The thirst is as great. No hydropimbia. The 
same constant tenesmus, weakness of the loins, and subse¬ 
quent palsy. There is never in the ox, and rarely in the 
sheep, any disposition to bite; but sheep are very irritable, and 
make frequent and eflhctual use of their horns. In the male of 
both there is in the early stage an excessive desire of venery. 
