598 COMMUNICATED RABIES NOT CONTAGIOUS. 
sternly, and made him return to the house. The symptoms of 
rabies increased. On the morrow, the dog did not refuse the 
food which the servant threw to him, but escaped from the 
house, and the more he was called after the faster he ran. The 
servant ran after him, overtook him at Cathedral Place, and 
seized him by the neck. The dog turned, and bit him slightly 
on the left hand ; nevertheless, he was carried back to the house, 
and the symptoms becoming more violent, he was killed, and 
thrown into the river. Fifteen days after the bite, the unhappy 
domestic began to be melancholy—he lost his natural sleep and 
his appetite, and his bowels were constipated. A purgative of 
jalap was forced upon him, and some draughts of hydro-chloric 
acid. The bitten part was scarified, and the cupping-glasses 
were applied to it. These remedies not being efficacious, opium 
and muskwere used; but the disease increased, and deglutition 
became impossible. There were no vesicles, nor any alteration of 
the frsenum of the tongue, or the neighbouring parts. On the 
fifth day after the commencement of the disease, he died in hor¬ 
rible agony. Peculiar circumstances prevented the examination 
of the body. 
This occurrence had produced great terror in the whole family, 
when, as the mother of M. Jani was walking in her room, a rab¬ 
bit, with a great quantity of frothy saliva, bit her on the left leg, 
and left a slight mark. This rabbit afterwards ran into a neigh¬ 
bouring stable, and several times bit the hind legs of a horse : it 
then hid itself, and died rabid. There were found on it two 
wounds, one of which was not healed. This rabbit had lived 
with the dog that had become rabid. Neither the mistress of 
the house nor the horse were affected with the disease. 
Case IX.—The dog of Madeleine Romani had been first bit¬ 
ten, as was stated in Case VIII. The disease was not developed 
in him until two months after the death of the servant, Orsini, 
and the rabbit; perhaps because he was bitten when the disease 
was in an early stage in the dog. One morning, early, this dog 
ran out of the house furious, and bit every thing that came be¬ 
fore him. Several dogs and five persons were bitten, but neither 
the one nor the other ever exhibited any symptoms of rabies. 
Dr. Capello concludes, from these cases, not only that rabies is 
not communicated beyond the second person affected, but that 
its nature is not contagious. “ Contagious diseases,” says he, 
“ are reproduced many times—nay, almost to infinity, and every 
where; but this is not the case with rabies. They, either by 
means of a latent germ, or under atmospheric influence, the 
nature and mode of action of which is unknown, appear and 
disappear at certain determined periods: rabies, on the contrary, 
