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thought but of her o(rsj3ring seems to occupy her mind, and yet 
she is utterly regardless, unconscious of the pain she is inflicting 
on them ; and, in far less than four-and-twenty hours, they are 
all destroyed by her frantic love. The development of the disease 
seems to wait upon the completion of her time of pregnancy. It 
appears in the space of a month after the bite, if her parturition 
is near at hand; or it is delayed for double that time, if the 
period of labour be so far distant. 
It is so even with the gluttonous and unintellectual sow. The 
development of rabies waits on the completion of utero-gestation. 
Her young ones, however, have a better chance. There is not 
that paroxysm of maternal feeling which is seen in the bitch ; 
but she worries them incessantly, and occasionally destroys 
tl>em. They and the progeny of the bitch may be taken from 
the mother, and reared without difficultv or danger. There is no 
hereditary bequeathment of the disease to them. 
The Human Being .—The records of human medicine contain 
similar instances. A lady, five months advanced in pregnancy, 
was bitten by a rabid dog: she lived to give birth to her child, 
and exhibited the strongest expression of maternal love for it, but 
chastened by the superior intellectuality of the human being. 
Only a little while, however, passed, ere all the symptoms of 
rabies appeared, and she died. The child survived, and grew to 
be a man. 
It may readily be imagined that, in a disease so essentially of 
the nervous system, the mind may have great influence (perhaps 
we must not say in retarding, but certainly) in hastening its de¬ 
velopment. There are many proofs of this on record. A lady 
had been bitten by a rabid dog. Time passed on, and she and 
her friends were beginning to hope that all danger was at an end, 
when, looking out of the window one day, she saw a mad dog 
pass. She was dreadfully agitated, and in a few hours every 
hydrophobic symptom was developed. 
Two men were bitten by the same dog. It was incautiously 
mentioned in the presence of one of them, that the other had died 
hydrophobous. A sudden pain darted into the bitten part; every 
horrible symptom of hydrophobia speedily followed, and in less 
than eight-and-forty hours he, too, was dead. 
I have too often been bitten by rabid dogs; but the proper means 
were always promptly adopted, and when I am well, and not too 
much harassed, I feel neither pain nor fear: but, many a time, 
when I have been more than usually deeply interested in cases 
that have been brought before me, or when I have been fatigued 
and irritated by the scenes which a veterinary surgeon occasion¬ 
ally witnesses, I have felt a sudden and lancinating pain in the 
