Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-28

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| Phoola may uS 10 tue human Delng, ra-
bies is worse to the deg. 1t makes its
approach more gradually. 1t lasts longer,
and is more intense while it endures.
The dog that is going mad feels unwell
for long time prior TO the develo sment
of the disease. He is very i'll, but does
rot know what ails him. lie feels dis
satisfied with everything, vexed WITHOUT
reason, and, greatly against his better
nature, very snappish. Feeling thus, he
longs to avoid ell snnovanceS by being
alone. This makes him seem strange 10
those who are most accustomed to him.
The sensation induces him to seek soli-
tude. But there is another reason which
decides his choice of a resting place.
The light inf1icts upon him intense ago
ny. The sun is to him an instrument of
torture, which he therefore studies to
avoid-for his brain aches, and feels as
II 1t were q trembling jelly. This in
duceS the poor brute to find out the holes
and corners where he is least likely to be
noticed, and into which the light is una
BILE to enter In solitude and dsrkne $
he passes his day. If his retreat be dis.
covered, and the masters voice bid him
to come forth. the affectionate creature :
countenance brightens, his tail beais the
ground, and he leaves his hiding place
anxious to obey the loved authority; but
before he has gone half the distance
kind of sensation comes over him which
produces an in tantaneous change in his
whole appearance. lie seems to say TO
himself: Why cannot you let me alone +?
60 away-do go away! You trouble
pain me {" And thereupon he suddenly
turns tail and darts back into bis dark
corner. If let alone, there he will re-
main, perhaps frothing q little a. the
mouth, and drinking great deal Of wa.
ter, but not issuing from his hiding place
to seek after food. Eis appetites, are
altered; hair, straw, dirt, filth, e1cre-
ment, rags, tin Shavings, stones, the most
nolSome and unnatural substances, are
then the delicaces for which the poor
dog, changed by disease, longs for and
Swallows, in hope to ease a burning
stomach. He is most anxious for LIQUIDS
He is now altogether changed. Still, he
does no! desire TO bite mankind; he rather
eDdeaVors to avoid society; he takes long
Journeys Of thirty or forty miles in ex
tent and heightened by all kinds of acci-
dents, to vent his restless desire for mo.
tion. When on these journeys, he does
not walk. This would be too formal and
measured pace for an animal whose
whole frame qulvers with excitement
lie does not run. That would be too
great an eIertiOn for an animal whose
body is the abode of a deadly sickness
lie proceeds in slouching manner, in a
kind of trot-a movement neither run
nor walk-and his aspect is detected
His eyes do not glare and stare, but they
are dull and retracted. Ills appearance
is very Characteristic, and, if once seen
can never afterwards be mistaken. In
this state, he will travel the most dustv
roads, his tongue hanging dry from his
Iopen mouth, from which, however. there
drops no foam. Lis course is not straight.
How could it be-Since it is doubtful
whether at this period be Sees at all
His desire is to journey unnoticed. II
no one notices him, lie gladly passes by
them. He is very i'll; he Cannot stay 10
bite. If, nevertheless, anything oppose
his progress, be will, as if by impulse.
snap-as a man in a similar state might
srike-and tell the person Ito get out
OF the way" lie may take his road
across field in which there arc q flock
IF sheep. Could these creatures only
make room for him, and stand motion.
less, the dog would pass on and leave
them behind uninjured. But they begin
to run, and at the sound the dog pricks
up his ears. His entire aspect changes
Rage takes possession of him. What
made that noise! He pursueS it with
all the energy Of madness. lie flies at
lone, then At another. He does not
mangle, nor is his bite. simply consider
ed, terrible. He cannot pause to tear
tbs creature he has caught. He snaps
and then rushes onward, till, fairly ex-
hausted and unable longer to follow, he
sinks down and the sheep pass forward,
to be no more molested. He may have
bitten twenty or thirty in his mad on
slausht; and would have worried more,
had his strength lasted-for the furore of
madness then had possession of him He
may be slain while on these excursions;
but if he escapes, he returns home and
seeks the darkness and quiet of his former
abode. His thirst increases, but with it
comes the swelling of the throat. He
will plunge his head into water, so raven
GUS is his desire; but not . drop of the
liquid can he swallow, though its sur
face is covered with bubbles in conse.
lquence of the efforts he makes to gulp
the smallest quantity. The throat is
enlarged to that extent which will per-
NIT nothing to pass. He is the victim
of the most horrible Inflammation of the
lstomach, and the most intense inflam-
nation of the bowels. His state of suf-
fering is most pitisble. He has lost all
self-reliance; even feeling is gone. he
flies at and pulls to pieces anything that
is within his reach. One animal in this
condition being confined near fire, few
at the burning mass, pulled out the live
Goals, and in his fury scrunched them
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