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she was seized with vomiting, threatened suffocation, shortness of 
breath, and violent palpitation of the heart; and soon afterwards 
with convulsions of the limbs, horror of liquids, of light, and of the 
slightest current of air falling upon her. He tongue was white and 
furred, but without any appearance of pustules; a frothy saliva was 
frequently ejected from the mouth; the pulse was small and ^eak, 
but of its usual frequency; the evacuations and urine continued 
unchanged. The wound in the arm was of a leaden colour, but not 
painful. There appeared to be scarcely any disposition to do mis¬ 
chief; and her intellect continued unaffected until her death, which 
took place about thirty-six hours after the first appearance of the 
symptoms. She died without a struggle. 
The labourer has never suffered much from his wound, and still 
remains perfectly well. 
Case II .—Inoculation of a Horse hy a rabid Fox. 
During the winter and spring of 1836 and 1837, there were a 
great number of rabid foxes in the neighbourhood of Ulm. On the 
6th of December 1836, one of them bit a bull-dog belonging to a 
peasant; and, shortly afterwards, another dog, belonging to the 
schoolmaster. Both these animals were immediately destroyed. 
On the same day, a dog belonging to the miller was bitten; and 
the fox was shot by a sportsman who chanced to be passing that 
way. 
On making a post-mortem examination of the fox, he was found 
to be in good condition. There was much inflammation in the throat 
and salivary glands, and less in the air passages. The chest was 
filled with black blood; the lungs inflamed; the stomach contained 
undigested hay, small stones, and a few round worms ; and the in¬ 
testinal canal some dry and well-digested fodder. The liver was 
pale and soft; the gall-bladder full of glutinous fluid of a strong 
unpleasant smell; the spleen healthy; the kidneys partially in¬ 
flamed, and the genitals (male) in their natural state. 
In another fox which had bitten a ban-dog, and was killed on the 
same day, the respiratory organs and the intestinal canal were found 
to be perfectly free from inflammation; and among the contents of 
the stomach were pigs’ bristles, horse-dung, and some sand. 
On the 12th of April, the house-dog belonging to Herr F., in 
Holzhausen, had a battle with a fox suspected to be rabid. The 
owner caused the dog to be immediately destroyed. 
On the 7th of May, a fox bit two dogs belonging to Herr R.; 
they fought with and succeeded in strangling their antagonist. The 
dogs were ordered to be destroyed. On a post-mortem examina¬ 
tion of the fox, the throat, salivary glands, and stomach, were found 
