COMMUNICATION OF RABIES. 
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in Prussia. One, it is said, was dreadfully lacerated, and had 
the soft parts divided down to the bones and ligaments: the 
other escaped with a slight wound. The usual precautionary 
measures were taken with regard to each ; but the former, from 
the great extent of the injuries which he received, could only 
experience a partial employment of the prophylactic means. 
He was seized with hydrophobia on the 26th day and died* * * § . 
A well-authenticated case is on record of the disease following 
the bite of the piscivorous otter'\. 
The Omnivora ,—There is a too convincing proof of the disease 
being communicated by omnivorous animals. Julian Palmarius 
states that he has seen horses, cattle, and sheep become rabid 
from eating of the straw on which some rabid pigs had lain. Dr. 
Shackmann confirms thisj. 
That the human being labouring under hydrophobia can com¬ 
municate the disease, there are a few% but convincing proofs. A 
father in the last stage of this malady imprinted a parting kiss 
on the lips of his child, and the infant afterwards died hydropho- 
bous§. 
Half a dozen rabbits were inoculated, by the late Mr. Earle, 
with the saliva of a woman that had died of hydrophobia follow¬ 
ing the bite of a cat. Two or three of them died||. 
A more satisfactory result was obtained from some experiments 
of MM. Magendie and Breschet. They inoculated two dogs 
with the saliva of a man in the last stage of hydrophobia, and 
who died on the same day. One of them became rabid, and 
communicated the disease to other dogs, and to some sheep that 
were bitten by him^. 
Dr. Zincke instituted similar experiments at Jena, and with 
nearly the same results. They maybe found in the same volume 
of the Journal General. 
Thus far, then, there can be no dispute that a great many of 
the carnivorous animals will not only become rabid if inoculated 
with the rabid virus, but that they then possess the power of 
communicating the same disease to others. Fewer experiments 
have necessarily been made on the omnivora ; but the result of 
• Medical and Physical Journal, May 1822, p. 438. 
f Nat. Cur. vol. iii, Obs. II. 
f Palm, de Morb. Contap^. and Shackmann on Hydrophobia, p. 11. 
§ The older authors contain several cases of this kind. It may be sufficient 
to cite Palmarius de Morb. Contag. 1518; Schenck, Observat. Lib. VII, 
No. 52, 1600; Spindler, Observat. No. 94, 1691; and Zacatus Lusitanus, 
Med. Pe. Hist. Lib. V, No. 12. 
II Minutes of Evidence before the House of Commons in 1830, yeteri- 
nnrian iii, 690. 
H Journal (i<^*ncral de M^d<icin, vol. Iii. 
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