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copious discharge of saliva and mucus from the mouth, the animal 
may be continually masticating; if the mouth is opened, food will 
usually be found on the tongue, between the teeth of the upper 
and lower jaws, and between the teeth and the cheeks; in fact, 
the power of deglutition or swallowing is now completely lost for 
solid food as well as for fluids. The respiration in this stage is 
normal; pulse also, if any change it may be a little soft; bowels 
usually costive. Tf the hand is passed into the mouth, over the 
base of the tongue, the fauces seem relaxed, baggy to the feel, 
dhese are the only symptoms exhibited, as a rule, in this stage; 
though in one case which we had under treatment (May, 1868), 
aotive delirium existed, the animal fought and bored his head at 
the wall of his box similar to an attack of phrenitis. This case 
lecovered, but it was a sporadic case, and they are usually more 
amenable to treatment than when they are of an epidemic char¬ 
acter. 
If pressure be made directly over the spine, pain is not usually 
evinced, and yet when the power of deglutition is completely lost, 
one may safely predict that before long the patient will be pros- 
tiated, unable to rise from lost power behind. When this condi¬ 
tion or stage is arrived at, the further course of the disease is 
similar to that described as occurring in the first mode of attack : 
tonic 01 tetanic spasms of some muscles, while those behind are 
paralyzed, delirium more or less marked in the different cases, the 
paralysis extending forward presently, coma more or less pro¬ 
found supervening, eyes glassy in appearance and pupils some¬ 
what dilated ; the patients present no other changes, and death 
finally ensues. 
Thus the cases, though beginning by two modes, have symp¬ 
toms in common during their career; with, towards the close, loss 
uf power, but not of sensation, tonic spasms, etc., increased res- 
piiation, pulse increasing as the cases approach a fatal termination, 
but remaining soft. We have noticed as a rare symptom, abnor¬ 
mal action of the heart, amounting to palpitation. 
Post-mortem : 
The u pia mater ” exhibits appearances of acute inflammation, 
and coagulable lymph is usually found in abundance beneath the 
