IIABIKS IN THE DOG—SYMPTOMS. 
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The empty Stomach .—In a few instances, you will find the 
stomach empty, unstained, and exhibiting a variable quantum of 
inflammation. Examine the pharynx—examine the duodenum 
and the jejunum : is there any stray portion of the indigesta which 
I have described ? The detection of the smallest quantity will be 
decisive—the remainder had been ejected by vomit. Inquire 
with regard to any previous sickness, and the nature of the 
matter thrown up. 
The Appearance of the Sto?nach .—It is not often, except when 
the stomach has been long and much distended by a large and 
somewhat hardened mass of these indigesta, that one uniform 
deep blush of inflammation spreads over the stomach. This, and 
especially if accompanied by erosion, would engender the suspi¬ 
cion of poison rather than of rabies. The inflammation of rabies 
is of a peculiar character. If not confined to the rugse, it is most 
intense there, and particularly on their summits. If it should 
extend between them, and occupy a portion of the mucous coat 
below, it is most developed on the ridge, which has a brownish or 
a blackened appearance. It is confined very frequently to the car¬ 
diac portion of the stomach, or it is most intense there. Still, 
however, I confess that, occasionally, and with the deepest inten¬ 
sity, it spreads over the whole of the stomach. Here and there— 
found oftenest on the cardiac portion, and almost invariably on 
the summit of the rugae—are spots of ecchymosis. I believe 
that I cannot give them a better name—they are effusions— 
extravasations of blood into the submucous cellular texture. I 
have pricked them with my lancet, and macerated the stomach 
in water, and the greater part of the blood has exuded, and the 
place has been left almost unstained. They vary in size, from 
that of a pin’s head to a large pea. Mr. Brookes used to com¬ 
pare them to crushed black currants, and he could not give a 
more graphic description of them. Six or eight hours after death 
there is a central depression in each of them, and this increases 
to a certain but not great extent. 
I have rarely seen a stomach in which there has been consi¬ 
derable inflammation in which they have not been found ; and 
at other times, when the mucous membrane generally has not 
been at all reddened, and the rugae deepened in colour in only 
the slightest possible degree, one or two slight ecchymoses have 
told me of the state of the animal. From a stomach like this, 
perhaps, I should not have been justified in peremptorily deciding; 
but these few and minute spots have turned the scale, before, 
perhaps, doubtful; and the history, which in process of time 
has been unfolded, of the mischief accomplished by that animal, 
has proved, beyond doubt, the propriety of the decision. 
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