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1012 REPORTS OF CASES. 
with mild antiseptics. A little pain was present after the 
diessing, but opiates soon relieved it. I saw it the next day ; 
temperature and pulse nearly normal ; was eating - and appar¬ 
ently well. Healed without any further trouble. 
A CASE OF EQUINE RABIES.* 
By Robert Dickson, D. V. S., New York City. 
On Monday morning, Jan. 20, I was called to see a horse for 
lameness. On arrival I found a clipped bay gelding, 15.3 hands 
high, 9 years old, weighing 900 lbs., suffering from some nervous 
trouble. At first glance it appeared to be an affection of the 
brain, but as the symptoms were rather peculiar, I inquired very 
carefully into the history of the animal, which was as follows: 
O11 the Saturday previous the horse went suddenly lame while 
driving, and the driver treated it as best he could, regarding the 
cause as a strain of the tendons. The next morning he observed 
that the horse acted very queerly in backing out of the stall; 
and thinking that the cause might be a nail prick, sent for the 
horse-shoer, who removed the near shoe, but in endeavoring to 
take off the right shoe he struggled so much that he became 
very nervous and excited, and it was impossible to raise the off 
foot from the ground. 
Lpon my arrival I found the animal’s respirations to be 40, 
temperature 103 , and in a highly nervous state. In backing - 
him out of the stall he would drag the front feet in the manner 
of a foundered horse, only between the intervals of backing and 
stopping he would thrash and paw at an alarming rate. I sent 
for the shoer to get him to raise the horse’s foot, but upon ap¬ 
proaching him he would become very nervous and tremble 
with fear, pawing and striking with first one foot and then the 
other, finally endeavoring to lie down, with his front feet out 
stiaight. He was put back in his stall, and inquirv developed 
the fact that he had refused all food since the day before. How¬ 
ever, he would drink water, which caused him no excitement. 
I placed the patient under “ expectant ” treatment, with an un¬ 
favorable prognosis. 
He rapidly grew worse, the spasms of excitement returning 
with the least provocation, becoming so alarming that all at¬ 
tempts at tieatmeut were abandoned. He became furious, strik- 
ing, biting, and breaking everything with which he came in 
* Read at Bie February meeting of the Vet. Med. Assn, of N. V. County. 
