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foot;—in oxen, by a hoarse bellowing, and the attacking of both 
animate and inanimate bodies with the horns;—in the cow, 
by furor uterinus;—in sheep, by butting with the head, various 
disordered movements, and riding the other sheep;—in the hog, 
by most singular and strange actions, by peculiar squeaking and 
an attempt to bite; and, finally, in all animals, by an abundant 
discharge of saliva, and a depraved taste with regard to whole¬ 
some and unwholesome food. 
D. Of the contagion or non-contagion of rabies in the herhi'- 
vorous animals, as it regards the human being and the domesti¬ 
cated animals. —We have said that the contagion of rabies in 
the dog is evident and positive. Is it so with the herbivorous 
animals? The facts which favour the non-contagion of rabies in 
these animals are more numerous and authentic than those that 
go to prove the reality of the contagion. 
1. Contagion. —A cow, bitten by a mad dog, and having be¬ 
come mad herself, bit in the shoulder the cowherd who took care 
of her. Six weeks after the bite the unfortunate man exhi¬ 
bited symptoms of rabies, and died of that malady. 
Brandt made an incision, an inch long, in the skin of four 
sheep. The foam that was taken from the mouth of a rabid ox 
was rubbed into these incisions, and the animals were then 
abandoned to themselves without any dressing being applied to 
the wounds. The cicatrization was terminated towards the end 
of the third week. The first became rabid on the twenty-second 
day after the inoculation, the second on the sixtieth, the third 
on the sixty-third, and the fourth on the sixty-fourth. 
Professor Breschet says, that he had perfectly convinced him¬ 
self that rabies could be transmitted by inoculation with the 
saliva of rabid horses, asses, and oxen. It is to be regretted 
that M. Breschet has given us no detailed account of these con¬ 
vincing experiments, so that we might have judged of them for 
ourselves. He would then have stamped them with a character 
of authenticity, which they have not at present. 
These are the only facts with which we are acquainted that tend 
to prove the contagiousness of rabies with regard to herbivorous 
animals. We may invoke, to a certain point, to the confirmation of 
them, and as tending to prove that the carnivora alone have not 
the sad prerogative of this transmission, the experiment of MM. 
Magendie and Breschet. On the 19th of June, 1813, these 
two physicians inoculated two healthy dogs with the saliva taken 
from a man labouring under hydrophobia. One of them died 
rabid on the 27th of July, after having bitten two other dogs, 
one of which died on the 28th of August, exhibiting the charac¬ 
ters of furious madness. 
