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ON RABIES CANINA. 
lavished on him her caresses, and escaped. The lips of the 
child might be chapped, those of the young woman might be 
unbroken. 
A man endeavoured to untie with his teeth a knot that had 
been firmly drawn in a cord. Eight weeks afterwards he 
perished, undeniably rabid. It v/as then recollected, that with 
this cord a mad dog had been confined. A woman was attacked 
by a rabid dog, and escaped with the laceiation of her gown. 
In the act of mending it, she thoughtlessly pressed down the 
seam with her teeth. She died. A physician, attached to a 
faithful spaniel on which symptoms of rabies were too apparent, 
ordered it to be destroyed; but, with pardonable weakness, he 
first kissed the poor animal. He paid the penalty of his impru¬ 
dence with his life. 
There is a strong attachment betw een the Danish dog and the 
carriage horse. It is pleasing to witness the interchange of 
caresses between them. Not even under the strongest excite- 
ment of rabies will this dog bite his companion and friend ; but 
I know more than a dozen instances in w^hich the Dalmatian has 
died rabid, and the horse has speedily follow^ed him. 
Bread, smeared with the saliva of a rabid dog, has been eaten 
by another dog without the slightest bad consequence ; but two ' 
horses that had been suffered to devour the litter on which some 
rabid pigs had lain were lost. 
This is a question, then, which cannot be perfectly decided. 
It is possible that the lips of those who unfortunately perished 
" might have been abraded; but I confess, that the strong incli¬ 
nation of my opinion is, that the virus cannot be received on a 
mucous surface without imminent danger. Syphilis and glan¬ 
ders are much more frequently communicated by contact wdth a 
mucous than an abraded surface. 
In what secretion of the rabid animal does the virus reside?— 
' In the saliva, and in that alone. 
Some authors, describing the post-mortem appearences of 
rabies in the quadruped, have asserted that there is no inflam¬ 
mation or enlargement of the salivary glands. I can only say, 
that this is contrary to my experience. The parotid and sub¬ 
lingual glands have been almost invariably affected, and fre¬ 
quently the submaxillary. 
Trolliet imagines that the mucus secreted in the bronchial 
passages is vitiated, and communicates the disease. I have 
seen considerable inflammation of the bronchiae, and the pas¬ 
sages have then been filled with viscid, and, occasionally, bloody 
spume; but, in the majority of instances, there has been no 
injection of the membrane, or undue secretion of mucus. The 
