308 MUZZLING DOGS, AND RABIES. 
connected with it are sad. The cases occurred at out-quarters. 
Major-and Cornet-’s horses occupied one stable, 
three horses belonging to each officer. The cornet was pas¬ 
sionately fond of his horses. The major had two very favourite 
dogs, a pointer dog and bitch, which lived in the stable. One 
day a man in the yard heard a great noise in this stable, as if 
horses were loose and kicking; from which being continued, he 
went in and saw the pointer dog in the act of springing at one 
of the horses, while all the others were in the greatest state of 
excitement. The dog was immediately secured and the horses 
examined, and three were, I think, found bitten, with blood 
flowing. A month from this date a horse belonging to the 
Cornet was taken suddenly ill, and with such symptoms that 
the farrier could not at all understand : a veterinary surgeon 
was immediately called in, but in about eighteen hours the 
animal died. The owner, by this time, had some misgivings 
in his mind, and came to see me early on the following morning. 
My first inquiry, after hearing the case, was, What has become 
of the dog 1 He was dead. 
I hurried over, and saw the veterinary surgeon, who told me 
the state of the horse. The gentleman, up to the time I saw 
him, was ignorant that the animal had been bitten, but when I 
told him of it he suffered excessively. He described the horse 
as being taken with an affection something like tetanus, but 
distinct from it, attended with convulsions, snortings, and 
tremblings, and that he was apparently in the greatest state of 
nervous excitement, insomuch that he could not be restrained. 
He told me, he could not tell what was the matter with him, 
and that he had never seen any thing like it before; aqd that in 
his treatment he attacked the most prominent symptoms by 
blood-letting, physic, and opiates, but that the horse quickly 
sank and died frantic; and he particularly described the ap¬ 
pearance of his eye as being excessively wild and watchful. 
I now inquired about the dog, and found that he had been re¬ 
moved to a coach-house, and chained in a large barrel, and 
these were the circumstances that guided my opinion of his case. 
The stable-man declared that he was constantly howling, but 
that his voice was completely changed, both in the bark and 
howl; that he had gnawed the side out of the tub; that he 
ate his own excrement and the straw and dirt of his kennel, and 
appeared to be always watching something; and that his eyes 
were glaring was another fact.—Where was the companion 
bitch? She had been also separated, and, in about a fortnight 
after the dog died, became affected in a similar manner, and 
died. 
My mind was satisfied; the major, who was the kindest and 
