Canine &% Spontaneous Hydrophobia. 455 
the fkin, independently of any bite, or the in- 
fli€ion of an apparent injury, I would not 
venture to deny: but that no imperceptible 
rafure of the fkin by the teeth of the animal, 
or expofure of the true fkin from a previous 
{cratch—deftru€tion of a pimple—or any acci- 
dental injury had not taken place, in moft of 
thefe cafes, I am rather inclined to doubt. In 
the German Ephemerides,* an inftance is re- 
lated of Hydrophobia occuring from the mere 
contact of the faliva of a mad animal, without 
the infliction of a bite.f Johan. Matheus de 
Gradibus has furnifhed us with an inftance of 
this difeafe, arifing from a perfon applying his 
hand to the mouth of a mad dog. In this 
cafe,t though no bite was inflited, yet the 
difeafe manifefted itfelf at fome diftance after- 
wards. Matthiolus advifes us not to treat with 
neglect the inftances that have been adduced 
by various authors, of the production of Rabies 
Canina, by the mere contact of the faliva with 
the 
* Ann. 7. Ob. 121. 
+ Non quidem commorfa, fed tantum faliva ex ore 
** fpumante hinc inde in corpore commaculata effet ; 
** oftavo die, vehementi rabie correpta eft, & tertia die 
 placidé obiit.” a 
£ Johan. Coqueranus infefus fuit rabie poft muitos 
“dies, ex fola impofitione mands in os canis rabidi; eth 
“ gum Canis non momorderit.’’ 
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