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when his master died. Hereupon the dog smelt his master 
all over, and was afterwards — i. e., about ten hours after 
swallowing the dejections — seized with a vomiting of a 
whitish fluid, and purging of a highly-offensive thin mass. 
He moaned feebly, lay with his paws out stiff, and died at 
nine at night. At the post-mortem next day, a perfectly 
rice-water fluid escaped in quantity from his mouth, and also 
from the stomach when it was opened. There w r as injection, 
both venous and arterial, of the peritoneal coat of the intes- 
tines ; flocculent whitish masses covered the mucous surface, 
which exhibited a fine redness throughout from stomach to 
rectum. Peyer’s patches were injected ; many of the gland- 
capsules turgid and w T hite. In the caecum and rectum, the 
faeces were greyish-green; mucous coat also injected. Heart 
and veins contained blackish blood, entirely like that of 
human cholera-blood. State of the bladder not mentioned. 
In the fourth case, related by Dr. Sylvain de Barbe, a dog 
entered the house of a cholera patient, and licked up the 
vomited matters which were near the bed. Two days after, 
it became depressed after vomiting and purging, uttered 
cries, became stiff and cold, and died in forty-eight hours. 
Its young mistress, seventeen years of age, who had given it 
drink, had embraced it, and was licked on the face, (perhaps 
on the mouth) by the animal, had cholera two days after, and 
died in eight hours. 
Lastly, we find experiments in which the vomited or de- 
jected matters have been intentionally introduced into the 
alimentary canal of animals. In Warsaw and Gallicia, this 
was done in the case of dogs, cats, rabbits, and fowls, but 
with contradictory results.* By Eichstedt, leaves fre- 
quently moistened with the cholera dejections were given to 
tw r o rabbits, which ate them greedily. The one, a strong 
animal, was taken with purging at night, had convulsions, 
and died next day. The stomach was full of food; the 
small intestines empty and contracted ; the caecum full of 
semifluid faeces; colon and rectum empty. Mucous coat no- 
where particularly injected: blood not treacley; brain, cord, 
and membranes injected. The other rabbit recovered after 
some days, but was evidently indisposed, and ate nothing. 
A tablespoonful of the watery dejections was given to a third 
rabbit without any effect. A common fowl ate greedily of 
some cholera evacuations ; in two hours it lay as if stupified, 
was roused only when touched, but could not walk for 
twenty-four hours ; in a few days it recovered. Schmidt gave 
to a fasting cat, 30 grammes (about one ounce) of cholera de- 
* Arch. Gen. de Med., t.xxviii, Rapports; also (Ester; Med. Jahrbuch. 
