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sons^ experiments than iny own; but I have succeeded in pro¬ 
ducing rabies in the dog, plainly and distinctly, by inoculation 
with the saliva of a rabid ox, 
Drs. Beddoes and Stock, in the year 1807, accompanied 
Mr. King, of Bath, to see a rabid cow at Weston, near that 
city. Mr. King wished to experiment with her saliva, and he 
inoculated a barn-door hen with it, who, ten weeks afterwards, 
was observed to run at other fowls, and to refuse her food. She 
had a wild strange expression, and her eyes were bloodshot. 
Early in the following day, her legs became contracted, so that 
she very soon lost the power of standing upright. She remained 
sitting, with her legs rigid ; refusing food and water, and appear¬ 
ing very irritable when touched, and she died in the evening. 
There was great inflammation about the cicatrices. The trachea 
and oesophagus were considerably inflamed, and the vessels of 
the brain distended with blood*.” 
Here is, plainly enough, rabies communicated to a biped gra¬ 
minivorous animal by the saliva of a cow. 
If there remained any doubt about the matter, the following 
case would remove it. 
A cow in the department of Jura was bitten by a dog affected 
with rabies. Some time after she became dull and refused all 
kinds of food. She approached to some water that was offered 
to her, but she could not swallow it. 
A woman that had the care of her imagined that some foreign 
body was lodged in the pharynx and prevented the animal from 
swallowing, and she thrust her hand into the mouth of the beast, 
and to the very back part of it, but found nothing. In doing 
this her hand was slightly scratched by one of the teeth of the 
animal. It was soon afterwards sufficiently plain that the cow 
was rabid, and she was destroyed by order of the magistrates. 
A year afterwards the woman began to have frightful dreams, 
in which she thought that she was pursued by two enraged ani¬ 
mals,—the cow, and the dog by which she had been bitten. 
She soon became hydrophobous, and died in a state of horrible 
suffering. 
Then it appears that herbivorous animals are capable of pro¬ 
pagating the disease ; and I do not hesitate to express my con¬ 
viction, that every animal capable of being affected by the disease 
can propagate it. On a subject, however, so important I crave 
your aid, and would endeavour to engage you in a course of experi¬ 
ments, so far as you can conveniently and safely pursue them, in 
order that all doubt may be removed on this interesting point. 
In the mean time, let me remind you, that you are not justified in 
* Medical Gazette, June 1828. 
