264 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
“The only positive statements I can meet with as to the 
milk of a mad dog producing rabies, are the following: 
Soranus of Ephesus, the most distinguished disciple of the 
Methodic School of Medicine, averred that infants at the 
breastaresometimes attacked withhydrophobia.* Balthazar 
Timzeus speaks of a peasant, with his wife and children, as 
well as several other persons, becoming rabid through drink- 
ing the milk of an affected cow. Eleven of these died ; but 
the peasant and his eldest child were restored by medical 
treatment—a circumstance which might tend to throw 
some doubt on the occurrence. Faber mentions instances 
in which the milk has proved injurious. An observation 
made by M. Dussort, and quoted by Roucher, offers a very 
probable instance of transmission by the milk of a hydro- 
phobic patient. This was the case of a negress in Algeria, 
whose child died presenting symptoms similar to those of 
the mother before she perished. In the same country, 
however, M. Hugo relates the case of a rabid bitch, whose 
puppies were suckled by her, and remained in good health. 
But, again, an instance is given in ‘ Cassell’s Magazine’ for 
July, 1871, in which the puppies suckled by a mad bitch 
also became rabid.” 
Treatment.—After what I have already said, it is almost 
needless to add that I believe treatment, according to past 
* Ceel. Aurelianus, Op. cit., lib. iii. cap. 2. 
t “A friend of mine once owned a favourite terrier, which had re- 
cently littered five puppies, and as she was kept constantly in his 
garden, she could not possiblv have been bitten for some considerable 
time. But she suddenly displayed unmistakable symptoms of mad- 
ness, and ran up and down the garden, with the saliva flying from her 
jaws, and her head twitching from side to side, as the heads of all mad. 
- dogsdo. . . . But, even in her frenzy, her maternal instinct was 
too strong, and she ran back to her kennel, and began suckling her 
puppies. .. . Hereis the strangest part of thestory, and to me it 
seems very pathetic: all her little puppies were raving mad too, and the 
foam hung in flakes about their mouths, and their poor little heads 
twitched, just as the mother’s had done. They had sucked in madness 
with the milk, for ske had not bitten any of them. This was, in my 
experience at least, a new feature in the history of hydrophobia.” 
