When shut up, and his vagrant disposition curbed, the paroxysms are liable to appear intermittently, a period of torpor and quiet alternating with one of restless movement, searching, scraping, howling, biting of any animals within reach and later of men, beginning with strangers. A paroxysm can usually be roused by shaking a stick at him and always by presenting another dog. There is sometimes a difficulty in deglutition, the dog acting as if he had a bone in his throat which he was trying to dislodge, and fatal bites have been sustained during well meant attempts to remove the hypothetical bone. This bears a resemblance to the pharyngeal spasms which are such a marked feature in the hydrophobic man. But it is not roused, as in man, by the sight or sound of water. On the contrary, water is sought and often swallowed at first and even, exceptionally, throughout the disease. He may even take his usual food for a time. The bowels are usually torpid, and any fæces passed are black and fœtid. Diarrhœa may set in later. In the early stages the rabid dog walks or trots like any other dog. It is only when exhausted by wandering, or violent paroxysms, or both, that he droops his head and ears, hangs the tail between the legs, and slouches along with arched back, and unsteady, swaying limbs. The appearance of these last symptoms implies advancing debility and paresis, and the near approach of paraplegia. The symptoms may, however, be temporarily relieved by a period of seclusion and quiet. In _dumb_ or _paralytic rabies_ the striking peculiarity is the omission of the preliminary furious stage, and the disease merges at once into paralysis after the premonitory symptoms. In these cases the early nervous symptoms tend to prostration, weakness and dulness or even stupor, there is no disposition to escape, but rather to seek seclusion and quiet, there is rarely howling and then only at first, and soon there is paralysis of the masseters and dropping of the lower jaw, and there is neither ability nor desire to bite. From this the paralysis extends to the hind limbs and then to the fore limbs and trunk. In other cases one limb is the first to suffer, followed by the face, limbs and body. The most prominent feature is the widely opened mouth, the flaccid, hanging tongue and drivelling saliva. The buccal mucosa, at first red and moist, becomes bluish, dry and powdery. The eyes are dull, mournful, suffering or altogether without expression and the pupils are usually widely dilated. The hind limbs are usually utterly helpless and often the fore ones as well, the prostration is extreme and the patient lies quiet and helpless until released by death in two or three days.