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and bite his dog. M. Capuccini immediately shot him, without 
suspecting that he was rabid. Thirty-eight days afterwards, 
the dog that was bitten lost his usual spirits, refused his food, 
had dread of water, ran into the street, and bit four dogs which 
he met. Every body fled at the sight of the enraged dog, ex¬ 
cept two children, which were also bitten. The dog disappeared, 
but it was afterwards found dead at the place where the disease 
first attacked him. It was ascertained, at the same time, that 
the dog of a gardener had become spontaneously rabid, and that 
it was the same dog that was killed at the bridge of Lucane. 
The masters of the four dogs that were bitten complained to 
M. Capuccini; but he assured them that, having been bitten by 
a dog in whom the disease was developed by communication, or 
in the second remove, they were perfectly safe. He gave the 
same assurance to the parents of the children, and his prognos¬ 
tic was completely verified. 
Case VII.—M. Rosa had two dogs, one of a beautiful form, 
and the other very ugly ; the latter, after refusing his food and 
water, and becoming dispirited, and trembling all over, escaped 
from the house, never more to enter it; but before he ran away, 
he bit the other dog, and then directed his course towards Mount 
Ripoli, where some days afterwards he was found dead. After 
having ascertained that he had not been bitten by any other 
animal, and that, consequently, the rabies was spontaneous, 
M. Rosa was assured that his dog would become rabid. In fact, 
at the end of fifty-one days, he was attacked by all the symp¬ 
toms of the malady, and, although confined with some care, he 
broke his chains, bit a w'oman in the family, and one of the 
domestics, and, in a street near Jesus Place, several women who 
were coming out of church; thence he directed his course towards 
Palais Communial Street, where he bit several times the dogs of 
Francois Giansante, and M. M. Betti. He passed through Pa¬ 
latine Place, and directing his course towards Saint Valerie, he 
met M. de Angelis, whom he bit slightly on the back of the 
hand, leaving a quantity of spume on the w ound : lastly, at 
Saint-Ange Gate, he bit an old woman and a little girl, and 
precipitated himself among the ruins of Quintilie Varo. Not one 
of these persons or animals became rabid. 
Case VIII.—A dog of M. Etienne Jani began, towards the 
end of May 1821, to lose his usual spirits, and would no longer 
remain with the servant, Seraphin Orsini, whose inseparable 
companion he had been. On the morning of the 29th he had 
scarcely gone out of the house, before he flew on a dog of 
Madeleine Romani, which, although strong, and unprovokedly 
attacked, did not defend himself. The domestic spoke to him 
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