HYDROPHOBIA 
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Important as are their discoveries, there are many missing 
links, and while they have placed about all the responsibility 
on the tick at the experiment station, I am still of opinion that 
there are other factors, as important, if not more so, in the so- 
called infected area where the disease occurs seemingly without 
ticks, and where it does not occur in spite of ticks. 
However the tick theory should not be discarded. It should 
be carefully considered and intelligently understood, and if your 
observations in practice support it, you should not hesitate to 
confirm it as one of the factors that spread the infection in this 
state. More good can be done by assisting the Bureau in its 
efforts to solve doubtful points than by placing obstacles in its 
way, or by trying to prove it wrong. 
(To be continued.) 
HYDROPHOBIA. 
By J. H. Adamson, D.V.S., Charlottesville, Va. 
(Read before the Virginia State Veterinary Medical Association.) 
(Concluded.) 
In the earlier stages, sexual excitement is usually a promi¬ 
nent sympton, both in animals and in man. When a rabid dog 
is at large, and is noticed trotting along in the characteristic 
straight line, he always alters his course (when compelled) by 
turning at right angles, and never deviates from this rule unless 
driven to it by a furious mob. When he reaches any article, he 
does not think of going out of his path to clear it, will pass 
through a hedge or ditch, or attempt to climb over it or under 
it, never giving up until he is completely exhausted. 
When the disease first declares itself, it not infrequently 
happens that the wound which had rapidly and entirely healed 
after the bite, begins to exhibit evidence of irritation or inflam¬ 
matory action, tingling and itching severely, which causes the 
animal to gnaw and bite it, without even feeling the slightest 
