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ACCOUNT OF A RABID HORSE. 
5. That the ehlorurets may be associated with ether, and 
thus furnish practitioners with a new combination, from which 
they may derive advantages, both tonic and diffusible. 
Recueil de Med. Vet. 
An Account of a Rabid Horse. 
By M. Dupuy. 
An entire draught horse, fourteen years old, had been ob¬ 
served not to feed well for several days. After a journey of 
some leagues he was put into stable with his old companions, 
when he was seen to attempt to bite them. On the following 
day he rolled violently about, uttering a peculiar plaintive cry. 
A veterinary surgeon w as sent for, who, mistaking it for a case 
of staggers, gave a drink composed of two ounces of aloes, and 
some mucilaginous injections. Being more violent on the suc¬ 
ceeding day, the horse was copiously bled twice, and setons 
w ere placed in his chest and the inside of his thighs. The dis¬ 
ease became still more terrible—the animal tore the setons from 
his chest, rolled himself about, kicked incessantly, and furiously 
bit his own shoulder. At length he freed himself from his 
halter, and the door of the stable was secured. Up to this time 
he had drunk as usual; he drank two buckets of white water, 
which were offered him by a servant, and whom he did not 
attempt to bite ; but now his food w r as thrown in, and his w r ater 
lowered through the window over the door. It was then re¬ 
marked, that whenever water w T as poured into the bucket from 
a certain height, the sight and the noise of the water caused 
the most violent and dreadful spasms, and he bit w ith fury at 
every thing within his reach. It was at this time, on the fourth 
day of the disease, that M. Dupuy first saw r him. 
The animal w r as covered with perspiration; the eyes were 
unusually bright; he was continually shaking* his head; he bit 
himself about the breast; his mouth w-as filled with spume; he 
gaped almost every instant, and with effort. Whenever he 
heard the fall of water he fell into the most violent convulsions: 
he would then rush towards the bucket, as if he was about to 
drink, agitate the water with his lips, and immediately be 
seized with horrible convulsions, and fall, uttering a cry of 
distress ; but he would immediately recover himself and rise 
again. The struggles were particularly violent when water 
was dashed upon his head, and they would commence by his 
starting and endeavouring to seize the fluid w ith his teeth. 
