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three or four months afterwards, the servant, and a neighbour 
with four children, who had drunk of the same milk, perished 
miserably, and all of them hydrophobous. 
We will not trust ourselves with any observations on this sub¬ 
ject, but will leave it to time and to experience to determine on 
the propriety of the use of the milk of cows suspected of being 
bitten or labouring under rabies. Nevertheless, we feel it to be 
our duty, until this matter is better understood, to advise those 
whom it may concern to refrain from the use of the milk of 
cows that have been bitten by rabid animals, or that labour under 
rabies. 
2d. The use of the meat. — Lecamus, Principal of the Faculty 
of Medicine at Paris, assured his confrere Lorry that he had 
eaten, without the slightest bad effect, the flesh of animals that 
had died rabid. 
On the 15th of June, there was sold at Medole, in the Duchy 
of Mantua, the carcass of an ox that had been bitten by a rabid 
dog, and that had exhibited all the symptoms of confirmed rabies 
before he was destroyed. Not one of the inhabitants of that 
village became hydrophobous. 
In August 1836, we gave the tongue of a horse that had died 
rabid to a dog in the infirmary of the veterinary school at 
Alfort. He ate it up, and he remains in perfect health at the pre¬ 
sent day. 
On the other hand, there are several facts on record that can¬ 
not be reconciled with these statements. 
In 1553, a tavern-keeper in the Duchy of Wurtemburg served 
the flesh of a mad pig to travellers who were resting at his hotel. 
They were shortly afterwards attacked with rabies. This is given 
on the authority of Schenkius. Pierre Borel reports a similar 
fact. 
Manget states, on the authority of Joseph Lanzoni, physician 
at Ferrara, that the whole of a peasant’s family became rabid 
after eating of the flesh of a cow that had died of the same 
disease. Three of them died, but the rest were saved, grace a 
Dieu et aux remedes. 
The illustrious Boerhaave and Van Swieten consider that the 
flesh of animals that have died rabid is capable of communicat¬ 
ing a similar disease to those who eat it. 
The veterinary professor Gohier caused a dog to eat of the flesh 
of a rabid horse. On the nineteenth day he presented evident 
symptoms of rabies, and died of that malady. A similar expe¬ 
riment was made on two dogs, to which the flesh of a sheep that 
had died of rabies was given. Seventy days afterwards one of 
these dogs became rabid, and died. 
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