ANIMAL PATHOLOGY. 
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In Mr. Gilman’s work, nothing is said of the membrane of the 
mouth generally, or of the pharynx; but every examiner agrees that 
there is inflammation of the dorsum of the epiglottis, or of the 
glottis, or both. The inner membrane of the posterior surface is 
occasionally inflamed. The stomach is generally filled with all the 
nauseous substances that a rabid pig will so greedily devour—they 
sometimes extend to and occupy the duodenum. Every examiner 
likewise agrees as to the state of the stomach, the villous coat of 
the anterior surface of it being more or less inflamed. This was 
found in all Mr. Gilman’s cases. He thus describes two of 
them. Of the first, he says the villous coat of the anterior 
surface of the stomach, towards the cardia, was very slightly in¬ 
flamed, and the surfaces of two of the rugae on the opposite side 
of the stomach presented a livid appearance, approaching to a 
chocolate colour.” He thus speaks of the second : “ The villous 
coat of the stomach was inflamed about the pylorus, and had 
several chocolate-coloured striated marks, approaching to mortifi¬ 
cation.” Contrary to what I hinted at just now, of the supposed 
state of the bladder, this viscus was much distended with urine, 
and contained more than a pint. 
In a lieiiy a Rabbity and a Guinea Fowl .—A hen, as I have 
already stated, was, under the superintendence of Dr. Ashburner, 
inoculated with the saliva of a rabid ox, nearly eleven weeks 
before. 1 have related the symptoms which preceded her death. 
The inoculated parts appeared recently inflamed, and there was 
great vascularity about the cicatrices, each having become of 
the size and shape of a compressed pea, the vessels of which 
were turgid with blood. There was no appearance of this when 
the bird was inoculated, nor at some subsequent intermediate 
periods at which it was examined. The trachea and oesophagus 
were considerably inflamed, and the vessels of the brain were 
distended with blood. 
Some rabbits were inoculated with the virus taken from a doo‘ 
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belonging to Sir John Shelley, that was supposed to be rabid, 
and the true nature of whose disease it was of great consequence 
to decide. According to the evidence of Mr. Earle, delivered 
before a committee of the House of Commons, they exhibited 
all the phenomena of rabid animals. They were confined in a 
place where they could procure no rubbish or dirt, and had 
nothing but clean wholesome food given to them ; yet after death, 
their stomachs were found to be filled with their own faeces. 
In the guinea-pig, referred to in a former lecture, and in which 
rabies was produced by inoculation, there was injection of the epi¬ 
glottis, and spots of ecchymosis on the stomach. But it is time (o 
conclude. 
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