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lants, diseases of the female sex, excessive pain as from obscure 
and undetected cancerous affections, etc., etc., and is a frequent 
concomitant of a disease of the eye-ball known as acute glaucoma; 
these symptoms would never excite especial and remarkable atten¬ 
tion or suspicion were they not in some way aroused coupled 
with the dog as a factor. 
9. The multitude of nerve and brain disorders, many of which 
are little understood, in their varied manifestations are often mis¬ 
taken both in man and beast for rabies. 
10. There are no positive means of deciding a disease to be 
rabies. Until death ensues the weight of evidence is ever in the 
negetive, and even than is by no means certain ! 
RABIES IN CATTLE. 
By Frank S. Billings, V.M. 
Director of the Experiment Section and Laboratory of the University of 
Nebraska. 
(Continued from page 464.) 
The animal was a red steer, about two years old, in tolerably 
fair condition. The first thing noticed, as we approached it from 
a distance, was its almost continuous bellowing, which increased 
if any one approached closely to the pen. The right eye was 
completely blind and amaurotic; the pupil of the left not so 
much distended. It could not swallow either feed or water. 
When excited to move, it tumbled over on fore-knees, even fall¬ 
ing to the ground, but rapidly got up again. It had endeavored 
to chase several strangers who were in the field at the time it 
was caught. This was the fifth day of its illness, so far as known, 
but it was ill when found, very excited, and charging repeatedly 
upon the other cattle in the field. 
The average period of the illness in those that have been 
watched and not killed, has been about nine days. 
Autopsy. —Animal shot through the heart. Blood blackish- 
blue as it flowed from the cut vessels; rapidly coagulated on 
contact with the air, and soon reddened. No exudation in ab¬ 
dominal cavity ; bladder empty. The intestines, especially the 
smaller were of diffuse pink-red color; mesenteric vessels dis- 
