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and will force or gnaw his way out of his confinement in a most 
surprising manner. The vessels that are placed before him, he 
overturns or breaks with mischievous alertness. 
“ A disposition to rove accompanies each variety of rabies ; but 
as, in the dumb kinds, the paralysis, stupor, and prostration of 
strength, are hindrances to it, so it is more particularly apparent 
in the acute kind. This inclination does not usually shew itself 
by an attempt to escape altogether, neither does it appear a de¬ 
lirious affection; on the contrary, much method is displayed in 
it, which makes it rather seem an instinctive disposition com¬ 
mon to all, to propagate the disease. In its early stages, before 
the strength is much impaired, dogs will travel immense dis¬ 
tances under this impulse : such a one trots along, and industri¬ 
ously looks out for every other dog within his reach or sight. 
Whenever he discovers one, little or large, he first smells to 
him, in the usual way of dogs, and then immediately falls on 
him, generally giving him one shake only; after which he com¬ 
monly sets off again in search of another object. The quick¬ 
ness with which this attack is made very frequently surprises 
the bitten dog so much, as to prevent his immediately resenting 
it: but nothing is more erroneous than the supposition that a 
healthy dog instinctively knows a rabid or mad one. I have 
watched these attacks in numerous cases, and I have seen the 
mad dog tumbled over and over, without the least hesitation, by 
others that he had himself fallen on. 
“ During this march of mischief, rabid dogs but seldom, how¬ 
ever, turn out of the way to bite human passengers; neither do 
they so often attack horses, or other animals, as their own spe¬ 
cies. Sometimes they will not go out of their line of travel to 
attack these even; but, trotting leisurely along, will bite only 
those which fall immediately in their way. In other cases, 
however, where the natural habit is irritable and ferocious, and 
where dogs may have been used to worry other animals as 
guard-dogs, farmers' dogs, terriers, &c., a disposition to general 
attack is sometimes apparent; and by such horses, cows, sheep, 
pigs, and even human persons are all indiscriminately bitten. 
