74 IIABIES COMMUNICATED TO THE HUMAN BEING, &c., 
strange cat, and in spite of all proper medical precaution died of 
hydrophobia. From all that could be ascertained of the cat, it ap¬ 
peared that it had been bitten by a fox. 
From the communications of Drs. Streif and Henseln, of the 
Canton of St. Gellen, in the years 1824 and 1825, where this dis¬ 
ease was very prevalent, we learn that many dogs, cats, cattle and 
goats, and particularly cats, were inoculated by rabid foxes. 
In March 1825, two diseased foxes came to the kennel of Mr. 
Weber, of Nettstall, in the Canton of Glarus, in which was a bitch 
and two puppies. She was bitten by them, and became rabid 
about the end of April, when she bit her master, her own puppies, 
and several more dogs. M. Weber immediately called in medical 
advice; but hydrophobia supervened on the 9th of August, and he 
died in a few days. 
Franque relates a case of a terrier bitch that was bitten by two 
foxes, and became rabid about two months afterwards; and biting 
a cow, which shewed symptoms of the disease in less than twenty- 
four days. 
Michel, of Zurich, observed a case of rabies in a three-year-old 
ox that had been bitten by a rabid fox. 
Hiibner relates a case in which a pig and a goat were inoculated 
by a rabid fox. 
There are many other cases related in the Wurtemberg records 
in which rabies has been traced to the bite of a fox, or to fights 
between dogs and foxes; and has usually appeared in the animal 
about four, five, or six weeks after the inoculation. One of the 
dogs thus infected found its way into a cow-house, and bit four of 
the beasts, all of whom died rabid about the same time. 
It would be easy to multiply the number of these cases, were it 
necessary to do so in order to prove the identity of the contagion 
communicated by foxes with the disease known as rabies. 
Among the cases, however, that have been hitherto narrated, 
there is not one in which the disease has been communicated at 
once to the human being by a fox; nor is there one in which it is 
communicated to the horse. I shall therefore now relate the fol¬ 
lowing two cases to fill up this hiatus. 
Case I .—Hydrophobia in a Girl aged following the Bite of 
a rabid Fox. 
On the evening of the 10th of August, 1836, the daughter of 
Herr H-, aged 13, and a labourer, aged 55, were bitten by a 
fox that had got into the garden. As soon as the girl heard that 
there was a fox in the garden, she ran out to drive him away. At 
her approach the animal slowly retreated about 200 paces, and con¬ 
cealed himself in the bushes that divided that garden from a neigh- 
