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cases the eyes are less vivid ; and, more particularly, when the 
disease is to assume the mild form, called dumb madness, they 
often present a dull aspect, and a purulent discharge from the 
inner angles ; occasionally the nose also throws out pus. The 
salivary discharge is often increased early in the complaint, 
and so continues; in other cases, a parched dry tongue is seen, 
with insatiable thirst. The purulent discharge has occasioned 
the disease to be mistaken for distemper. Much stress is laid 
on a sullen manner, and a disposition to hide or retreat from 
observation, as early characteristics of madness ; and these ap¬ 
pearances are certainly not unusual in hounds and kennelled 
dogs, but they are less frequently observed in the petted kinds ; 
this, however, will greatly depend on the general character of 
the dog at all times. Costiveness is not uncommon in the inci¬ 
pient stage; in the latter it is still more frequent. An early 
sickness and vomiting often appear, but although ineffectual 
retchings may continue, actual vomition does not often accom¬ 
pany the complaint through its progress ; the peculiarity of the 
inflammation in the stomach rather tends to retain the ingesta 
within it. Indeed, this circumstance forms one of the strongest 
criteria of the existence of the disease, as will be hereafter no¬ 
ticed. 
“ A continual licking or violent scratching of some particular 
part of the body, is by no means an uncommon symptom ; and 
a close examination of the part will frequently detect a scar, or 
the remains of the wound by which the poison was received; 
and when the former wound cannot be ascertained in this way, 
if a true history of the case can be gained, it will always be 
found that the inoculation was received on the part so scratched 
or licked ; for I have reason to believe that this morbid sympa¬ 
thy in the bitten part exists more or less in every case. The 
appetite is by no means always affected in either early or con¬ 
tinued rabies ; on the contrary, food is not only eaten, but 
digested also, during the first stages; and some will eat almost 
to the last, but with such the food is seldom digested. That no 
disinclination to liquid exists, will be readily acknowledged by 
