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weak, and as upon its strength stands the safety of the instru¬ 
ment, we believe it might be altered with advantage. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
RABIES VERSUS COMMON SENSE. 
By G. Archie Stockwell, M.D., F.Z.S. 
(Continued from page 419.) 
The prominent and definite symptons laid down now, as two 
thousand years ago, indicative of rabies in the dog are; u Red¬ 
dened eye, a drooping tail, foaming mouth, and projecting tongue.” 
None are of the slightest value ! The first is found in all febrile 
conditions: the second when the animal is weary, ill, in pain, 
ashamed, or frighteued: the third is ever present in the harm¬ 
less disease, epilepsy, to which dogs are especially subject, rarely 
so in rabies and never until paralysis has set in! The same ob¬ 
jections are equally applicable to the last. Moreover, rabic dogs 
do not fear water, do not shun it, but on the contrary court it! 
