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furious. In the furious form from twelve hours to two days 
after the animal has been bitten there is depression ; the animal 
is gloomy and anxious. The dog no longer obeys his master. 
Soon he becomes defiant, restless and cross (in rare cases they 
are extra affectionate for a few days), the animal licks and bites 
the wound, refuses food, and bites anything it comes in contact 
with ; it swallows foreign bodies, as pebbles, nails, pieces of 
wood, etc. ; it snaps at the empty air and runs about biting 
everything that it comes in contact with ; often it bites foreign 
bodies so hard as to fracture its jaw. It howls with a peculiar, 
unnatural coarse note, which ends in a higher key. The head 
is hot and fiery, the eye wild and glazed, the larnyx paralyzed, 
which causes ptyalism. The mouth is generally kept open. 
It becomes emaciated and gradually gets weaker and weaker, 
and dies about the tenth day. In the mute form there is 
no excitement, paralysis comes on quickly, especially of the 
lower jaw, and the animal dies about the third day. All ani¬ 
mals can become affected with hydrophobia by bites from a 
rabid animal. The cat is the most dangerous to man, because 
of its claws. They will jump on the face and attempt to claw 
and bite it. They are no longer afraid of dogs. A person may 
be bitten and the wound heal completely, and the symptoms of 
the disease not develop for weeks or months. The poison that 
causes it is found in its most concentrated form in the brain ; 
in a more dilute form in the saliva, tears, milk and pancreatic 
juice, perhaps in small quantities in the blood. 
If consulted by or called to see a patient who has been bitten 
by a rabid dog one of the first questions of the physician ought 
to be : Where is the dog ? If that dog is living it should be 
confined and the symptoms watched; if hydrophobia develops 
within three weeks there is yet ample time for the patient to 
receive treatment. Very likely what was taken for madness in 
the dog was merely one or more symptoms of some other disease ; 
if so the patient should be informed and all fears set at rest as 
concerns hydrophobia. There is no doubt but that many peo¬ 
ple bitten by dogs supposed to be suffering from rabies worry 
