*596 COMMUNICATED RABIES NOT CONTAGIOUS. 
three ounces of mercurial ointment were employe-1 in the way of 
friction : all was in vain. The unhappy man died five months 
after the bite. 
The dead body, which was opened on the same day, had al¬ 
ready begun to be decomposed. There were here and there 
livid spots on the skin; the cerebral vessels were engorged ; the 
laryngo-pharyngeal passages were of a brown-black colour. 
Through the whole length of the oesophagus, and on the mem¬ 
brane of the stomach, and of the intestinal canal, black spots 
were observed. The liver was enlarged, the bile black, and 
emitting a foetid odour. The pericardium did not contain any 
serosity, and the heart was diminished in size; the organs of 
generation were swelled and livid ; and the blood, twelve pounds 
of which had been abstracted, did not coagulate. 
A little dog was inoculated with the saliva, and was shut up, 
but set at liberty again at the end of eight months, having exhi¬ 
bited no symptom of rabies. 
Case II.—The dog of a shepherd was affected with sponta¬ 
neous rabies. Before he was destroyed a certain quantity of 
saliva was taken, and a cat, and the little dog that was the 
subject of the former experiment, inoculated with it. On the 
sixth day after the inoculation, the dog had lost his usual spi¬ 
rits, and began to refuse food and drink. On the eleventh day 
all the symptoms of rabies were developed ; the dog had dread of 
liquids—fury— and frothy saliva was discharged from the mouth. 
The nervous excitation increased w 7 ith great rapidity, and conti¬ 
nued until his death, which took place on the fourteenth day 
after the inoculation. 
Case III.—Another little dog was inoculated with the saliva 
of this one ; and a greater number of incisions w r ere made than 
in the former case. After he had been shut up seven months, 
he was set at liberty, not having exhibited any symptom of rabies. 
Case IV.—In the cat, just spoken of, rabies developed itself 
thirty-four days after the inoculation, and such w 7 as the inten¬ 
sity of the disease, that she died on the second day. Another 
cat was inoculated with saliva from this one, and was shut up 
for six months, but no symptom of rabies presented itself. 
Case V.—In the month of March 1816, a dog spontaneously 
rabid, bit, at Tivoli* two other dogs. One of them was killed ; 
the other, attacked with all the symptoms of rabies, escaped 
through the streets, and bit three or four women, not one of 
whom was affected with rabies. 
Case VI.—In the month of January 1818, M. Capuccini, 
returning from hunting, saw near Lucana bridge a dog with 
glistening eyes, and ferocious look, and foaming mouth, attack 
