I Diseases of the Nervous System. 263 



observes: "The influence of the »«z7y^ obtained from animals 

 supposed to be infected with rabies has received much 

 attention, and, as in the case of the flesh, the facts relating 

 to its virulence are negative and positive. Among the 

 negative facts, however, those must be distinguished which 

 have reference to the milk derived from animals only bitten 

 by mad dogs, and those really affected with the disease. 



" Andray reports that peasants have used, for more than 

 a month, the milk of a cow which was wounded by a mad 

 dog, without experiencing any inconvenience.* 



" An infant fed on the milk of a goat until the day the 

 animal became mad, remained in perfect health. And, what 

 is more striking, another child drank the warm milk drawn 

 from a rabid cow, and no ill effects followed. The veteri- 

 narian, Gelle, has stated that he was commissioned by the 

 Prefet of the Haute-Garonne to inquire into an occurrence 

 reported from the commune of Gagnac, near Toulouse, in 

 which several persons had drunk the milk of a rabid cow 

 every day from the commencement until the fatal termina- 

 tion of the disease. Though some of them were plunged 

 into the greatest terror, none were affected with the disease. 

 " The experiments made by Baumgarten and Valentin 

 concord with the observations made by Gelle ; they are 

 also confirmed by the researches instituted by Baudot, who, 

 a great number of times, noted that neither the milk nor 

 butter obtained from rabid cows produced unpleasant 

 effects on whole families who had consumed these articles 

 of food.t 



"At the Alfort Veterinary School a ewe which had been 

 wounded by a rabid dog was soon after delivered of twin 

 lambs, which of course it suckled. Twenty-one days after 

 the infliction of the bite the ewe became rabid, and died, 

 but the lambs did not manifest any signs of the disease. 



» " Recherches sur la Rage," Paris, 1781. 



t " Mdmoires de la Soc. Royale de M^decine," vol. ii. p. 911. 



