. Fig. 26.—Representation of a Dog affected with Rabies (after Sanson). turbance, sleeplessness, etc., he rapidly loses flesh. His eyes, altered in expression from the first, get more abnor- mal, and his whole appearance is extremely haggard. The excitement may periodically result in convulsive parox- ysms, death resulting in one of these, or from the exhaus- tion that follows them. Diagnosis.—Discrimination lies between epilepsy, or fits of various kinds, arising from the heat of the sun as dogs run the streets, neuralgia, toothache, meningitis, ex- cessive fright, acute ear disease, parasite
. Fig. 26.—Representation of a Dog affected with Rabies (after Sanson). turbance, sleeplessness, etc., he rapidly loses flesh. His eyes, altered in expression from the first, get more abnor- mal, and his whole appearance is extremely haggard. The excitement may periodically result in convulsive parox- ysms, death resulting in one of these, or from the exhaus- tion that follows them. Diagnosis.—Discrimination lies between epilepsy, or fits of various kinds, arising from the heat of the sun as dogs run the streets, neuralgia, toothache, meningitis, ex- cessive fright, acute ear disease, parasites in the nose or brain, the distress of dogs lost in a large city, of bitches deprived of whelps, etc. If the dog has been bitten and symptoms of a sus- picious character follow^, he should be isolated at all events and kept under observation. The bark of the rabid dog is very characteristic, and careful examination and obser- vation should enable one to distinguish between the dis-
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