Diseases of the Nervous System. 263 
observes: “The influence of the m/z 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, Gellé, has stated that he was commissioned by the 
' Préfet 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 Gellé; 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,” Peris, 1781. 
+ “Mémoires de la Soc. Royale de Médecine,” vol. ii. p. g11. 
