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see her again until December; the wounds were then quite co¬ 
vered with hair of a proper colour, but a little curled. 
A CASE OF RABIES IN THE COW. 
By Mr. G. Bain BRIDGE, Saffron Walden. 
On Monday, September the 9th, I was sent for to a cow said 
to be mad ; but being from home, I was not able to see her until 
the 10th, when I learned that about three weeks previously she 
had been bitten by a strange dog. She had shewn no symptoms 
of disease until the 8th, when it was found that she had not 
eaten her food in the night, and refused to take any water. She 
was turned into a field with some other cows, but was shortly 
found running after one and then another of them; and at length 
she blundered into a ditch. She was then driven home, and 
confined in a close yard ; where she kept bellowing and running 
after any small animal that came near her, during that and the 
following day. 
I first saw her about eleven o’clock in the forenoon. I found 
her lying with her head doubled under her flank, her countenance 
dull, the saliva running from her mouth, and hanging in the form 
of foam about her lips, the ears, extremities, and surface of the 
body of a natural heat; and the pulse steady at 41. 
A pailful of water was set before her : she plunged her nose 
into it as if to drink, but suddenly withdrew it, and seemed con¬ 
vulsed, and unable to swallow: she bellowed mournfully. I 
could not make her rise; but a dog approaching her, she sud¬ 
denly started up and ran after him, and seemed much ex¬ 
cited : a fowl approaching her, she did the same: yet the pulse 
kept at 41, and was steady. I did not consider that any me¬ 
dicine could be of service; but the owner wishing something 
to be tried, I ordered her a strong cordial drink in some 
gruel, which was given to her. There did not appear any diffi¬ 
culty of swallowing when it was poured into her mouth ; but she 
could not take any from the pail. The gruel was repeated several 
times every day until Friday the 13th, when I found her down, 
and unable to rise : the pulse was about 30: she was evidently 
suffering dreadfully, and was destroyed. I examined the larynx, 
stomachs, and brain, but could not find the slightest disease in 
any of them. 
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