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is strongly marked, there is then seldom either much irritability 
or delirium apparent; on the contrary, in many instances, a 
most peaceable disposition is manifest, and which does not ap¬ 
pear dependant on the inability to bite, but really from a total 
want of inclination to it. Indeed, in many cases of this kind, 
the tractability of character and mildness of disposition have 
appeared to be even increased by the disease, and that to a de¬ 
gree that will not permit strangers to suppose it possible for 
rabies to be present. It would sensibly affect any one, to wit¬ 
ness the earnest, imploring look I have often seen from the 
unhappy sufferers under this dreadful malady. The strongest 
attachment has been manifested to those around during their 
utmost sufferings ; and the parched tongue, as I have before 
noticed, has been carried over the hands and feet of those who 
poticed them, with more than usual fondness. This disposition 
has continued to the last moment of life, in many cases, without 
one manifestation of any inclination to bite, or to do the smallest 
harm. I have observed this particularly in pugs, and it has not 
been uncommon also in other lap-dogs. 
“ The progress of the disease in its latter stages is marked by 
increased paralysis, and it often happens that, as it extends ovei 
the body, that of the jaws lessens : the wretched animal now 
reels about with little consciousness ; tumbles, and gets up 
again ; now seats himself folded on his rump, and in this posture 
life is stolen often away without a struggle. The fatal termina¬ 
tion ranges between the third and seventh days; few die sooner 
than the third day, and very few survive longer than the seventh; 
the average number die on the fourth and fifth. In man, it has 
destroyed at the end of twenty-four hours ; few have lasted be¬ 
yond the third day : by repeated bleedings, however, a case 
which is related in The Lancet of July 12th, was protracted to 
the fourteenth day. Horses do not survive beyond the third or 
fourth; the ox and sheep, Mr. Youatt says, from five to seven 
days; but a rabid sheep, the property of Mr. Adam, of Mount 
Nod, Streatham, died on the third; and I have a recollection 
of one or two others which did not survive longer. 
