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ON RABIES CANINA. 
was sent to my in 
aloes and calomel. 
10 th. —He has regained his usual habits. 
1 9th. —He was this morning brought to me again. He had on 
the preceding day quarrelled with some imaginary object, and had 
barked furiously at it for an hour. He was now dull, and scarcely 
noticed the departure of his master, to whom he was much 
attached. Respiration laborious; jaw slightly dependent, yet 
able to eat; eager for water, quiet, and offered his paw as usual. 
R. Pulv. antimonial, gr. iij f calomel, gr. xij. 
20th. —Jaw more dependent, and unable to eat; eagerly lapped 
water, but able to swallow a very little; wild, anxious look; eyes 
frequently closing, and head drooping; spasmodic motion of the 
head ; watching the nails on the partition, and snapping at them. 
A stick violently enraged him. He made frequent attempts to 
get at a mare which stood in the next stall. Gave half a grain 
of arsenic every two hours. 
2\st .—Spasms more frequent; thirst extreme; breathing labo¬ 
rious. Flew savagely at me, but immediately crouched at my feet. 
Unable to bark, but made a peculiar deep, harsh, hollow noise. 
Continue the arsenic. 
2 2d .—At 5 a.m. he died. The glottis was inflamed, and the 
lining membrane of the trachea presented the most beautiful rami¬ 
fications of the. distended vessels. The pleura of the right lung 
highly inflamed. The stomach contained a considerable quantity 
of thick, greenish-brown fluid, and the cardiac portion of the 
villous coat was generally inflamed, without spots of extravasa¬ 
tion. The duodenum and jejunum inflamed, but the inflamma¬ 
tion lost in the lower part of the ileum. 
About this time some experiments were made on the effect of 
bleeding. The following was the most interesting:— 
March 11 th, 1813.—Mr. Haslep’s spaniel, accompanying his 
master to an auction room, was observed, seemingly in play, to 
snap at the feet of the persons near him. In the evening he bit 
his master, and his master’s friend. He was easily brought to 
my hospital—seemed perfectly docile, and eager to be caressed; 
but once suddenly, and without provocation, snapped at the man 
who brought him. To a common observer he would have appeared 
to be in perfect health, except that his eyes occasionally closed 
and his head drooped, and he would earnestly watch some ima¬ 
ginary object. He weighed about lOftj. He was bled until he 
fainted; but not more than five or six ounces of blood were pro¬ 
cured. He scarcely moved during the remainder of the evening, 
but slightly wagged his tail when spoken to. 
12^.—Somewhat dull; his eyes closing and his head drooping, 
unary, and was bled and freely purged with 
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