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AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
By R. H. Harrison, D.Y.S. House Surgeon. 
CANINE PATHOLOGY. RABIES CANINE. 
Four well-marked cases of rabies have been admitted and died 
in the hospital during the summer. The symptoms and post¬ 
mortem examinations of each case were well marked. 
Case No. 1 —Was a half-breed dog—a cross between a bull¬ 
dog and a mastiff. About a year ago he was under treatment for a 
gun-shot wound of the head. When requested to see him he had 
been ailing for two days, lying in the back of his cage, refusing 
food, solid or liquid, with his mouth open and abundant saliva 
running from it; the tongue of a dirty color, and, at the time of 
visiting, was partly paralyzed behind. There was no doubt as to 
the nature of the disease; diagnosis made accordingly, and, as he 
was well secured, he was left alone to his fate. He died the 
following night, and his body was brought to tiie college for post¬ 
mortem. This revealed the brain congested, with effusion into 
the lateral ventricles; the plexus choroides were hypersemic; 
the brain was softer than normal, and its membranes were inject¬ 
ed ; the lips and tongue were excoriated and of a leaden hue, and 
were covered with particles of straw and lime; the fauces were 
but slightly congested; the trachea was filled with frothy mucus, 
and the lungs were engorged with blood and almost black; the 
heart was flabby and contained a little fluid blood, blackish-red in 
appearance ; the stomach was shrunken and contained two ounces 
of coffee-colored fluid; its mucous membrane showed patches of 
congestion; the spleen was enlarged slightly by engorgement; 
the kidneys were softer and deeper in color than normal, and the 
bladder was closely retracted within the pelvic cavity; the whole 
of the intestinal tract was empty and rather yellowish. The bullet, 
which could not be extracted at the time he was shot, was found 
imbedded in the muscles of the larynx. 
Cases No. 2-3.—Were two bull-terriers, a bitch and a dog. 
