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RABIES IN THti DOG. 
idea, and having procured a bottle of chloroform, he went up 
to the door, and held out the bottle towards the horse’s nose. 
In an instant the horse snapped the bottle out of his hand, 
and then made a snap at his arm. Fortunately he only 
caught the man by the sleeve of his coat, and one of the by¬ 
standers instantly dragged him away before the animal could 
make another snap ; otherwise he might have been seriously 
hurt. 
At this stage the horse bit everything which presented a 
surface on which he could fasten his teeth. When he came 
to the door he seized the upper edge of it with his teeth, 
and in his fury bit his legs and other parts of his body. 
During these paroxysms the peculiar curling of his lips and 
nostrils gave him an indescribably ferocious appearance. 
On calling next morning I was told that he had died 
during the night, and been removed at an early hour in the 
morning. 
This horse was bitten on the 25th November, while being 
driven along the street. The dog which inflicted the bite 
rushed at him and seized him by the lip. The horse shook 
him off, and the dog immediately darted at another horse 
which was passing, and seized him in a similar way. On 
being again shaken off he ran along the street, turned the 
first corner, and was not seen afterwards. The driver of the 
horse told me that, for a fortnight before I was called in, 
the animal did not appear to have so much spirit as usual. 
On Thursday, 21st December, he began to go off his feed; 
but worked up to Saturday, the 23rd (the day before I 
was called in), though on that day he appeared unusually 
irritable and fractious. The wound in the lip was not trou¬ 
blesome in healing, and so far as I could observe it did not 
appear to be in an inflamed state when I was called on to 
examine the animal. 
Connected with rabies in animals I send you as an 
addendum to the above account the following extracts from 
the Detroit Free Press , of January 11th and 12th, 1872: 
“ A Mad Dog travelling through Springwells.—Two Persons 
and several Animals bitten. 
“ Just before noon yesterday, as a woman named Mrs. 
Charles Desens, living in the township of Springwells, near 
the brickyard of John Greusel and Sons, on the Chicago 
Road, was in the yard after’an armful of wood, she saw a large 
brown dog approaching. The animal was rushing straight 
