ON RABIES AND ITS EFFECTS. 109 



parts of the animal. Who ever heard of a man's head being 

 drunk, and not the whole man being more or less affected ? 

 Our object is to show that the milk of a rabid cow cannot 

 be drank with impunity, notwithstanding Mr. Youatt's asser- 

 tion to the contrary, who maintains that the milk of the rabid 

 cow may be drank with safety, for the poison is confined to 

 the saliva. Dr. Pereira says the morbid changes produced in 

 the quality of the milk by diseased conditions of a cow, 

 have recently-attracted considerable attention in Paris, owing 

 to the prevalence of a malady, called the cocote, among the 

 cows in that capital. Those which have been recognized are, 

 want of homogeneousness, imperfect mobility, or liquidity, 

 capable of becoming thick or viscid, on the addition of ammo- 

 nia, and containing certain properties not found in healthy 

 milk. Labillardiere states that the milk of a cow affected 

 with consumption contained seven times more phosphate of 

 lime than usual. 



The influence which many medicines, taken by the parent, 

 have over the offspring, is well known, though Cullen denies 

 it. We can modify the color of the milk by mixing madder 

 or saffron with the food ; the odor may be affected by garlic ; 

 the taste may be affected by the use of wormwood ; and last- 

 ly, the medicinal effect may also be influenced. The fact thus 

 established, that the milk can be altered by disease, leads us 

 also to conclude that it can be altered by rabies, or madness. 

 We do not wish to give the reader an idea that the milk of 

 a rabid animal will produce hydrophobia ; all we desire to pro- 

 mulgate is, that it will produce disease. If it has not accom- 

 plished this in all cases, it is because the vital energies of the 

 system, into which it was introduced, encountered, and even- 

 tually resisted the foe. 



Mr. Clater observes that "rabies has but one origin, and 

 that is inoculation." Can Mr. C. tell who inoculated the 

 first dog? WV hear the free use of horse flesh, in keeping 

 dogs in England, charged as one main cause for engendering 

 rabies. Dr. Hinds observes, that " this appalling disorder is 

 comparatively small in those parts of the world where horse 



