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ON RABIES IN SHEEP. 
knobs only of hardened feces covered with mucus were found 
in the colon and rectum. 
Remarks .—The cause of vomition in this case, I should think, 
must have been purely mechanical—the alimentary matter could 
not pass on in consequence of the above described obstruction; 
and this, as I before remarked, from the great distention of the 
stomach and small intestines, would have most probably pro¬ 
duced a rupture of the former viscus had it not been emptied in 
some measure by vomition. 
ON RABIES IN SHEEP. 
By Mr. C. A. Harris, Br'omyard. 
Early in the morning of the 23d of April last, several flocks, 
within the distance of five miles, were fonnd to have been driven 
about, and sheep (nearly all ewes and lambs, and most of the 
latter), to the number of about seventy, bitten ; of which number 
a few only were killed, or seriously injured, but some had lost an 
ear each, others a portion of tail each, while others had slight 
wounds on their faces and legs. A dog was found with one 
flock, and that at the extremity of the line, and which dog, after he 
was destroyed, was recognized as having been seen that morning 
by two persons in different places in that line, and had rather dis¬ 
puted the pass with one of them in a lane. He was described to 
me as a strong made lurcher-looking animal, coming from a con¬ 
siderable distance, and having before shewn a sheep-killing pro¬ 
pensity ; such was his propensity on this occasion, that out of 
twenty-nine lambs in one ffock only three escaped unhurt. I 
have stated that a few only were killed, and a few more badly 
injured were slaughtered ; but as the state of the dog was not 
suspected, little or nothing was done to many, and they appeared 
to be not at all affected for nearly a fortnight, when,however,many 
of them were most strangely seized, and, in another week, more 
than thirty were dead. I was now, for the first time,consulted; 
and found, on inquiry and observation, that the first symptom with 
all was, following and riding each other about, ewes, ewe lambs, 
and castrated males, equally the same, and which generally 
lasted three or four days, during which time they continued to 
feed, but evidently fell away, and the ewes lost their milk early. 
To this succeeded duiness or stupor for a day or two, terminat¬ 
ing in the lambs in a succession of convulsive fits, but which 
was not the case with the ewes, as they, after the first two 
stages, became paralytic, and died comparatively easy. In some 
