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If allowed liberty, the rabid dog always seeks seclusion as 
the disease advances. He will leave his home and go off in a 
perfectly straight line along the street. The gait is peculiar, 
and characteristic of the rabid dog, and nothing else. It may 
be described as a shuffling motion, a mixture between a pacing 
and trotting movement, commonly known as the fox-trot. He 
holds his head in a perfectly straight line with the body, and 
looks neither to the right nor to the left. He will not go one 
inch out of his way to do any mischief, and will often pass 
through crowds of people without even thinking of biting them, 
and even if pursued by cries and hootings he takes no notice 
until he is hurt bodily, then he will wreak his vengeance on the 
offender, or anything else that comes in his way. But more 
frequently he will endeavor to escape his assailants, and reach 
solitude, where, once by himself, he will snap at imaginary ob¬ 
jects, and will only attack real ones if placed in his way. This 
snapping at the empty air is also very characteristic. 
The prevailing desire to roam and wander away, seems to 
me to be an instinctive attempt to get rid of the disease by mus¬ 
cular action, as rabies is spontaneous only in non-perspiring 
animals. 
(To be Continued.) 
TREATMENT OF OSSIFIC DISEASES OF THE JOINTS BY 
HYPODERMIC INJECTIONS. 
By Junius H. Wattles, D.V.S. 
(Read before the Missouri Valley Veterinary Association at Atchison, Kan.) 
While I was attending college as a student, the question of 
treating bone spavin by some other method than the actual 
cautery, was discussed by a gentleman who was visiting the 
college, and myself. We reasoned that many valuable animals 
were disfigured by the fireing iron, and that if the same result 
could be obtained by some other method, it would be more 
satisfactory to both patron and practitioner. 
