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ON RABIES. 
of the stomach; Od, the grey substance of the spinal marrow 
having become red or studded with minute red points, or slightly 
softened. It was wrong, then, for certain veterinary surgeons, 
after having opened an animal suspected of rabies, to declare to 
the authorities that that malady existed during the life of the 
animal, because they had found the bladder contracted, and 
without urine, and some foreign bodies in the stomach, and red¬ 
ness of the pharynx. In our opinion, these veterinarians com¬ 
mitted a serious error. Some degree of probability could alone 
exist in such circumstances, but not the actual proof of rabies 
during the life of the animal. 
As to the danger to which the veterinary surgeon is exposed 
in the examination of the carcass of the suspected dog, there 
may be some cause for fear, for no experiment has positively 
proved that the saliva or other fluids may not be occasionally 
exceedingly dangerous. We have read of an anatomist who 
died hydrophobous, in consequence of having dissected the 
carcass of a rabid dog. However that may be, the veterinary 
surgeon ought to have plenty of water at his disposal, and should 
well wash every part that he is desirous of examining. If he has 
wounds or excoriations on his hands, he should abstain from 
touching any portion of the dog, and conduct the examination 
as well as he can without it. 
D. The Use of the Milk and Flesh of Animals affected with 
Rabies :— 
The use of the milk .—The following facts are extracted 
from the Memoirs of the Faculty of Medicine at Paris, and from 
the work of Andry on Rabies:— 
1st. Some peasants lived more than a month on the milk 
of a cow bitten by a mad dog, and suffered no inconvenience. 
2d. An infant was fed on the milk of a goat until the very 
day on which she was recognized as being rabid. The infant 
came to no harm. 
3d. A cow became rabid. The owner paid no attention to it, 
for he regarded the symptoms as belonging to quite another 
malady; and, requiring milk for an infant fifteen months old, 
this cow was fixed upon as the easiest to milk. The nutriment 
was given to the infant warm from the cow, and no ill conse¬ 
quence ensued. 
On the other hand, Balthasar Timmus assures us that a pea¬ 
sant, his wife, his children, and several other persons, were seized 
with rabies in consequence of having drunk the milk of a rabid 
cow; that the father and the eldest of the children were saved 
by the adoption of proper means, but that the wife and two of 
the sons, and all the daughters, died hydrophobous; and that. 
