ON RABIES IN SHEEP. 
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there was a degree of wildness observable, in others boldness and 
pugnacity, butting at their companions, and any person who came 
near ; but many shewed nothing of the kind. In the second stage 
there was, in general, a mucous-like discharge from the nos¬ 
trils, and, occasionally, ropy saliva from the mouth, though 
there did not appear to be any difficulty in swallowing what 
they ate or what was given them by drenching, but they did not 
appear to be thirsty, as none of them were seen to drink; and I 
had water kept near some on which I was experimenting without 
seeing any decrease. Some were observed to eat dirt, and they 
would nibble at a stick held to them, or any wood that they 
came near, also the clothes of persons holding them for drench¬ 
ing, but not one viciously. One ewe I observed to fall always 
on the same side ; some lost the use of their hind parts first, and 
one lamb walked about two or three days bearing upon his stifle 
joints, and trailing the inferior parts after him. I have said that the 
ewes were not convulsed, but I believe all the lambs were so, and 
in one it was confined to the abdominal muscles, causing (as the 
person who was carrying him for me said) a jumping in his in¬ 
side, and under which he soon died. They did not appear to be 
disturbed by any external circumstances (as is the case with 
horses affected with rabies canina, and which I have also seen 
in swine); but holding up the head to drench sometimes brought 
on the fits. The bleating of some of the lambs in the latter 
stage was most plaintive. 
On post-mortem examination^ there was, in general, fulness of 
the vessels of the brain, and I was told some of the ewes had 
water on the brain. The mucous membrane of the windpipe w^as 
slightly tinged, the liver of a clay colour; the kidnies of some (I was 
told) inflamed : I may plead guilty of neglect in this particular, 
as I did not examine all that I might have done, and that because 
I had before conceived, from the various accounts of several 
persons, that different parts were affected in different cases, 
and that no appearances were exclusively characteristic of the 
disease, and therefore of little consequence. In the way of treat¬ 
ment after the nature of the disease was suspected, some few 
lambs that had lost parts of their tails had other parts removed 
but without avail, as all that were bitten (without regard as to 
time), whether much or little, were sooner or later affected, and 
in about five weeks all were dead. I tried bleeding and anti- 
spasmodic medicines, and, as I thought, prolonged the lives of 
some ; but I afterwards found that some without any treatment 
lived much longer than the usual period. Some dogs, an ass, 
and a cat, were destroyed as mad about the same time, and in 
the line of country which the dog traversed ; but 1 di(l not see 
