642 DISEASE IN CATTLE RESEMBLING RABIES. 
have been very different. We wish for no better proof than what 
he himself says at the beginning of the 144th page. “ But it 
appears that more serious symptoms than those which we find in 
the present epizootic, such as severe lesions in the mouth and on 
the tongue, & c. were very frequent.” It is precisely these symp- 
toms which frequently, if not always, accompanied the aphthae 
observed at those periods which make us of opinion that they 
were but a variety of charbon (sloughing chancre), or an epiphe- 
nomenon of contagious typhus*. And besides the innocuousness 
of the milk stated by M. Rayer, the different nature of the ulcers, 
and their easy cicatrization, contrary to the assertions of Baraillon, 
are not all these sufficient to destroy every kind of analogy between 
the aphthous epizootic of 1839 and those of 1764, 1775, and 
1785. 
We are most happy to have it in our power to adduce the tes- 
timony of the talented M. Girard, sen., in support of our opinion. 
In his analysis of the “ Memoire of M. Lamberlichi,” he plainly 
demonstrates, in more places than one, that the epizootic described 
by this Italian veterinary surgeon possesses some of the charac- 
teristics peculiar to typhus in horned cattle t. 
ACCOUNT OF A DISEASE IN CATTLE RESEMBLING 
RABIES. 
By Dr. Adolphi, Roy. Sup. V.S. in Mitau. 
The disease which we are about to describe made its appear- 
ance among a herd of one hundred and four cattle, belonging to 
government, at Heyden, in Reinland, in June 1843, and prevailed 
until the end of July 1844. 
The animals attacked with it ran with up-tossed heads and wild 
looks madly round the pastures, goring and striking at all other 
animals with their horns. Every now and then the upper lip was 
drawn upwards in that peculiar manner in which vicious animals 
are apt to twitch it. They kept up a continuous bellowing, in a 
tone which struck all hearers with terror. This bellowing was not 
* Lancisi Rumazini, Vicq. d’Agyr, &c., and in the present day Messrs. 
Girard, sen. and Dupuy have seen aphthous vesicles developed in the course 
of contagious typhus. 
•f Recueil de Medecine V6t<$rinaire, 1827 ; last reference to page 353. We 
recommend the perusal of this clever essay to those of our readers who do 
not agree with us in opinion. 
