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SYMPTOMS OF RABIES IN THE DOG. 
that he lay for about an hour after the operation, when he rose, 
shook himself, and seemed considerably easier. He drank a 
little warm water, with a handful of bran in it, and continued to 
stand quiet for about two hours, when he became worse, and con¬ 
tinued to do so until he died, at 1 a.m. on the following morning. 
On opening the body, it appeared that there had been a portion 
of the ileum, six inches long, and about eighteen inches before it 
terminates in the caput csecum, which had been incarcerated in 
the hernial sac. About twelve inches of the intestine anterior to 
the strangulated part had become sphacelated ; extensive in¬ 
flammation had been produced throughout the greatest part of 
the intestines, and a considerable quantity of serum was effused 
into the abdomen. A patch on each side of the parietes of the 
abdomen, about a foot in diameter, was highly inflamed, from the 
bruises he had received in the fall. 
THE SYMPTOMS OF RABIES IN THE DOG. 
By Dr. Hertwig, Professor of the Veterinary School at Berlin. 
I HAVE great pleasure in being enabled to insert the following 
excellent account of the symptoms of rabies canina, by a gen¬ 
tleman who has seen so much of this, dreadful disease, and ob¬ 
served it so accurately and so well. It is not a little flattering 
to me that it corresponds so nearly with the table of symptoms 
given in the first number of “The Veterinarian,” and of 
which Dr. Hertwig was pleased to express his entire approbation, 
when I had the honour of seeing him in the spring of the last 
vear. 
W. Y. 
Dr. Hertwig having examined more than two hundred rabid 
dogs, first shews the fallacy of the common notions of the 
characteristic symptoms of this disease. He says that rabies is 
common to the dog and the bitch; that it attacks them at all 
seasons of the year; that hydrophobia, or the dread of water, 
never exists; that a discharge of frothy mucus from the mouth is 
not often observed; that the dog does not carry his tail between 
his legs in the early period of the disease, and that, although it is 
sometimes seen when debility approaches, it accompanies other 
diseases, and occasionally a state of health; and that mad dogs 
do not run on in a straight line, except when pursued. The 
symptoms are modified by the breed, age, and temperament of 
