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in many cases of rabies there is no great increased discharge of 
saliva, and when it appears, its continuance is short. 
Have you not always observed spasmodic affections in the 
throat when they attempt to eat or drink?—Very rarely indeed. 
How long does the dog go before the symptoms gradually 
get worse ?—Probably twenty-four or thirty-six hours ; then 
there is weakness, principally weakness behind; an uncertain 
staggering motion, and a peculiar change of voice. 
What sort of change?—The sound which he utters begins 
with a perfect bark, and ends abruptly in a howl. 
In what form does the dog die?—He gets weaker, and dies 
generally without a struggle; he is worn out by the irritation of 
the disease. ^ 
Do those dogs that are dumb mad bite the same as the other? 
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—INot m one case m twenty. 
Have they no convulsive snapping upon them?—There is 
spasm frequently in the muscles of the cheek: 1 have not seen 
the champing motion of the lower jaw. 
Have you ever dissected dogs that died with this description 
of madness?—Yes. 
Have you found parts of the neck or head distended in any 
particular manner?—I have found an appearance about the 
back part of the mouth decisive of the disease. 
What are the peculiarities you speak of?—The enlargement 
of the little prominences on the back of the tongue. There is 
inflammation, more or less, in every part of the fauces, and on 
the epiglottis. The membrane covering the epiglottis is in¬ 
flamed ; and the edge of the aperture leading into the windpipe 
is likewise inflamed. Those are the marks that are decisive 
with regard to that part of the animal. 
Did you ever kill a dog, and dissect it, when it was first 
brought to you, twenty-four hours before it would have died 
from the disease; and did you, in that early stage, observe the 
appearances in that part of which you speak ?—In the early stage 
there is always inflammation of the fauces and the stomach, 
perhaps not intense, but there is some. 
Can you tell, from your experience, how long after the dog is 
biten, this begins to appear?—It is perfectly uncertain; from the 
sixteenth or seventeenth day, to the sixth or seventh month. 
The average time I take at six or seven weeks. 
Did you find any thing particular in their stomach ?—There 
is always inflammation on the stomach.—If there is not dung, 
hay, straw, hair, or other strange indigestible substances, there 
is a brownish fluid: the stomach almost invariably contains the 
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