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the looker-on. Signs of hallucinations become apparent. If a 
patient is standing in a lot by itself for instance, it may be seen 
to glare and stare apparently at some object, prick its ears, blow 
its nose loudly, start suddenly in a threatening manner towards 
the imaginary thing, and sometimes it bellows in a hoarse howling 
voice. This more or less sonorous bellowing occurs in the stable 
a3 in the field, as all other symptoms do. It is not uncommon to 
see, also, some of those patients run wildly over the field, irrespec¬ 
tive of obstacles of any kind. If a dog, a chicken or any animal 
is placed within reach, the furious beast will madly rush for it in 
a most menacing, if not decidedly aggressive and dangerous man¬ 
ner. Man himself, has to keep at a safe distance. I, myself, 
had to get out of range in haste on one occasion. It occurred in 
a stable, three years ago, when I was not very familiar with the 
peculiarities of the malady. Indeed, I narrowly escaped a good 
pointed pair of horns by scrambling over a fence in a style that 
must have been not very graceful. It is never safe to endeavor 
to cultivate friendship with those maddened brutes. They do not 
seem particular enough about their objective point of hugging. 
The breathing is increased and the pulse is likewise augmented, 
but I have been unable to get it satisfactorily on account of this 
great excitability. I may say the same thing regarding tem¬ 
perature. 
During all those symptoms there is more or less slobbering 
at the mouth. It becomes more pronounced at the latter part of 
life. Finally in a paroxysm, the animal falls, or it lies down 
abruptly, apparently exhausted, or maybe somewhat paralyzed, 
and dies without much struggling. 
The bowels and urinary organs do not appear to have been 
materially, if at all, interfered with in their functions. In bleed¬ 
ing, (at certain periods at least, especially towards the closing of 
the sufferings by death), the blood is dark, flows freely and 
spreads over the ground without forming a solid clot. It does 
not brighten at all or brightens in color very little by contact 
with the oxygen of the air. 
Pathological Anatomy. 
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Soon after death the body becomes very much distended by 
the accumulation of gas in the thorax, the abdomen, the bowels 
