546 HYDROPHOBIA COMMUNICATED BY A COW. 
thesis : we do save the sheep attacked by this disease, by a 
change of food in the early stage of it. Can it be contended that 
aquatic herbs and water itself produce inflammation and fever; 
while any food, beans, straw, and salt, not only do not produce 
fever, but, on the contrary, are the most efficacious remedies of it ? 
[To be continued.] 
HYDROPHOBIA COMMUNICATED BY A COW. 
It has been asserted by some who hold a high rank both in 
the veterinary and medical world, that rabies can be communi¬ 
cated by those animals only who use their teeth as weapons of 
offence. We have often wondered at the unhesitating and dog¬ 
matical way in which this assertion is made, for we are ignorant 
of any theoretic principle on which it could be possibly grounded ; 
it is contrary to occasional facts, well known to all who have 
paid attention to the subject; and it is likely to lead to dangerous 
and fatal neglect of proper precautionary means. 
A late number of the Journal Theorique has added another to 
the cases of death succeeding to inoculation with saliva from a 
rabid ruminant, and also of the fearful period during which the 
virus may remain inert in the frame. 
A cow, in the department of Jura, was bitten by a dog af¬ 
fected with rabies. Some time afterwards she became dull, and 
refused all kinds of food. She approached to some water which 
was offered to her, and made repeated but fruitless efforts to 
swallow it. A woman that had the care of her imagined that 
some foreign body was lodged in the pharynx, and prevented 
the animal from swallowing; and she thrust her hand into the 
mouth of the beast, and to the very back part of it, but found 
nothing. In doing this her hand was slightly scratched by one 
of the teeth of the animal. It was soon afterwards sufficiently 
plain that the cow was rabid, and she was destroyed by order 
from the magistrates. 
A year afterwards the woman began to have frightful dreams, 
in which she thought that she was pursued by two enraged ani¬ 
mals, the cow, and the dog by which it had been bitten. She 
had dread of water, and she died of rabies in a state of horrible 
suffering, 
attended by circumstances peculiarly lamentable. 
