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by the bystanders who were attracted through curiosity ; this 
brought on an acute attack, while otherwise she remained in a 
comatose state from which even persons w ho w ere accustomed 
to come in and out of the stable did not rouse her; partial 
tremblings w'ere observed, which, gradually becoming more 
general, announced the commencement of a paroxysm, the 
intensity and duration of which was in proportion to the 
persistence of the cause w hich produced it. In these cases 
the patient pawed the ground, was agitated, neighed against 
its usual habits, the eyes were wild and fixed, partial 
sweats covered the body ; slimy mucus escaped from the 
mouth ; she showed an inclination to bite. Her attention is 
specially directed to persons going in and out of the stable, 
and, it may be observed, the greater the number the more the 
exasperation ; to such an extent did this occur that there would 
have been danger to the persons in attendance, had the curious 
not been expelled from the stable. The paroxysms w’ere subor¬ 
dinated to the different impressions the patient received, and 
it sufficed to remove the cause which produced them to 
restore the animal to comparative calmness, so much so that 
it w as even possible to approach it so as to examine the pulse. 
This w’’as the state of the mare on the 11th; that is, the 
third day of the attack; tow^ards the evening, and during 
the night of the same day, the patient became much worse; 
there was but little remission between the paroxysms, 
even in the absence of any of the existing causes above 
mentioned. The state of exasperation w'as thus permanent. 
When, though almost certain of the nature of the disease, 
which w'e had now’ watched for some days, to still further 
confirm the diagnosis, w’e decided on letting the patient loose 
in the stable, w’hich wmuld also enable us to study its actions 
and demeanour, but before this could be done she suddenly 
broke by a side movement both reins by which she w’as 
attached, and thereby was in the very position w ished. Free 
she became calm, and remained so when not disturbed by any 
unusual noise or the presence of strangers or persons she 
W’as unaccustomed to. Was this change the effect of her sud¬ 
denly obtained liberty, or would it have taken place without 
it? We think the former w^as the cause of the calm which 
succeeded her liberation. The author has no doubt w’hatever 
that the malady which has been described was a true case of 
rabies. For sanitary reasons no post-mortem examination was 
made on the mare when she was killed. 
