RABIES COMMUNICATED TO THE HUMAN BEING, &c. 73 
something or other, and, on looking out of the window, she could 
just distinguish some small animal running from the kennel where 
Pug was; after which she heard no more of the noise. What that 
animal was, whether dog or fox, I could never discover; yet, from 
the appearances altogether, and the time that elapsed between that 
circumstance and the time of his death, I can come to no other con¬ 
clusion than that it was a case of rabies, and one which I may never 
have an opportunity of seeing again. 
In many points it resembled that of the dog, with the exception 
of that excessive sly expression of his countenance, and his allow¬ 
ing himself to be pulled about. I regretted that I did not make a 
post-mortem examination; but having an old friend, a naturalist— 
Mr. Pellerin, in Great Russel Street, who wished for any thing of 
the sort that I could procure him—I sent the carcass to him. 
[I am glad that I can subjoin the following elucidation of the in¬ 
teresting case related by Mr. King. It is translated from “ Ma- 
gazin fur die Gesammte TJiierheilkunde,'' 1839, p. 184.—Y.] 
Cases of Rabies communicated to the Human Being and to the 
Horse by the Bite of Rabid Foxes. By PROF. Hering, of the 
Veterinary School at Stuttgart. 
Until lately but little notice had been taken of the number of 
cases in which rabies has been propagated by means of rabid foxes; 
but these at length became so frequent, particularly in the south¬ 
western parts of Germany and in Switzerland, that the government 
was compelled to interfere, and issue certain edicts for the purpose 
of controlling the spread of the contagion. It was generally be¬ 
lieved that the disease communicated by foxes was quite a different 
species from that usually denominated rabies, for it seldom ap¬ 
peared alone as in dogs, but was accompanied by some other disorder. 
In the Wurtemburg records of the prevalence of rabies, under the 
head of foxes we find the following cases:—About the end of 
April 1815, a fox, prowling round the hen-house of the See-haus 
farm, Leonberg, had a battle with the cat belonging to the house. 
This latter animal bit a servant-maid, who had the care of him, on 
the 21st of May. Four-and-twenty hours were suffered to elapse 
before any preventive means were made use of; and on the 25th 
of August the disease began to shew itself with all its usual symp¬ 
toms, as horror of water, &c., and she soon died. The cat was de¬ 
stroyed the day after it had bitten her. 
A similar case is recorded of a child, that while playing in a 
field near Morsburg, on the 17th of August 1828, was bitten by a 
