HYDROPHOBIA NOT COMMUNICABLE FROM RABID 
SHEEP TO OTHER ANIMALS. 
Some very interesting experiments have lately been made at 
the veterinary school at Alfort, with respect to the above subject. 
Two sheep, belonging to the flock of M. Yvart, having been bitten 
by a dog, which soon afterwards died with the symptoms of con- 
firmed hydrophobia, and having, about a month afterwards, evinced 
all the signs of rabies, a horse, a dog, and two sheep, apparently 
in perfect health, were inoculated with their saliva, the skin was 
in several places slightly scarified, and the saliva applied to the 
wounds ; at the same time the four animals were left in constant 
contact with the two rabid sheep, which died on the fourth day 
after the first symptoms of rabies. A few hours previous to the 
death of one of them, a dog and a lamb were inoculated with its 
saliva. 
Four months after the experiment none of the six inoculated 
animals had exhibited any symptoms of the disease ; it is accord- 
ingly more than probable, that the disease cannot be communicated 
from sheep to other animals. 
From the description of rabies in sheep, as observed in the 
above cases, it appears that it is not accompanied by the dread of 
water, and that therefore in these animals, as well as in dogs, it 
is improperly called hydrophobia. 
Magendies Journal . 
HYDROPHOBIA. 
Dr. Meniere has lately published a treatise on the above dis- 
ease, which he has very frequently observed : we extract some of 
the most interesting data : — 
The post-mortem examination of persons who died of the dis- 
ease in question gives no satisfactory results as to its real nature. 
In most cases, the brain and spinal cord were injected, and the 
cerebellum inflamed and softened ; in those cases where morbid 
irritation of the genitals had been observed as one of the principal 
symptoms during life, the latter organ often exhibited no morbid 
alteration whatever. The heart was mostly softened, and much 
distended with blood ; the aorta of a pink colour, and its internal 
coat injected ; the lungs were full of blood, but not diseased, though 
sometimes emphysematous. Tn the throat, pharynx, oesophagus*, 
